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Andreas Gross: The Azerbaijani authorities won't last long
Wednesday,
October
16
"Failures, controversies and cruelty of the Azerbaijani authorities
are so apparent that they won't last long," stated former Rapporteur
of PACE on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross in the interview given to the
Radio Liberty, Azerbaijan
Gross had observed the Azerbaijani presidential elections in Gedabei
region and recorded a great number of violations. As to the question
why the PACE observation mission had called the elections free and
democratic despite numerous violations, Andreas Gross said that the
announcement of the mission was misinterpreted: the head of the PACE
mission Robert Walter had announced that the elections were free
and democratic only on the 9th of October, however the presidential
elections are not limited only to the day of voting.
As for Azerbaijan's upcoming chairmanship in the Council of Europe,
Andreas Gross said, "This organization currently resembles a big
hospital and Azerbaijan is already in the reanimation unit". He
stressed that the situation with human rights and democracy in
Azerbaijan is detrimental, while the European countries close eyes to
this fact because of their energy interests; as a result western values
suffer. He also expressed a belief that Azerbaijan will eventually
face changes and that these changes will come from the Azerbaijani
society, as given this state of affairs the Azerbaijani authorities
won't last long.
Let us remind the reader that the report by European Stability
Initiative (May 2012) titled Caviar Diplomacy: How Azerbaijan
Silenced the Council of Europe mentioned Andreas Gross as a person
who throughout his tenure as the PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan
had remained impartial and criticized Azerbaijan for electoral fraud,
human rights violations and lack of democracy, as a result of which he
"earned" the hostile attitude of both senior and junior Aliyevs.
TODAY, 13:07
Aysor.am
From: A. Papazian
Wednesday,
October
16
"Failures, controversies and cruelty of the Azerbaijani authorities
are so apparent that they won't last long," stated former Rapporteur
of PACE on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross in the interview given to the
Radio Liberty, Azerbaijan
Gross had observed the Azerbaijani presidential elections in Gedabei
region and recorded a great number of violations. As to the question
why the PACE observation mission had called the elections free and
democratic despite numerous violations, Andreas Gross said that the
announcement of the mission was misinterpreted: the head of the PACE
mission Robert Walter had announced that the elections were free
and democratic only on the 9th of October, however the presidential
elections are not limited only to the day of voting.
As for Azerbaijan's upcoming chairmanship in the Council of Europe,
Andreas Gross said, "This organization currently resembles a big
hospital and Azerbaijan is already in the reanimation unit". He
stressed that the situation with human rights and democracy in
Azerbaijan is detrimental, while the European countries close eyes to
this fact because of their energy interests; as a result western values
suffer. He also expressed a belief that Azerbaijan will eventually
face changes and that these changes will come from the Azerbaijani
society, as given this state of affairs the Azerbaijani authorities
won't last long.
Let us remind the reader that the report by European Stability
Initiative (May 2012) titled Caviar Diplomacy: How Azerbaijan
Silenced the Council of Europe mentioned Andreas Gross as a person
who throughout his tenure as the PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan
had remained impartial and criticized Azerbaijan for electoral fraud,
human rights violations and lack of democracy, as a result of which he
"earned" the hostile attitude of both senior and junior Aliyevs.
TODAY, 13:07
Aysor.am
From: A. Papazian