03/02/2011 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 03.02.2011 – Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC) and Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Azerbaijan, have completed a three-day visit to the country (1-3 February 2011), during which they studied the current political situation following the elections and discussed the state of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure with the authorities, political parties and civil society.
In Baku, they met the Speaker of Parliament, the Ministers of Justice and National Security, the Prosecutor General and the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission.
They also held talks with representatives of the political parties, the President of the Supreme Court, the Ombudsman, the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, the diplomatic community, non-governmental organisations, religious associations and representatives of the media. They also met former newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev in prison. In Sumgait, the co-rapporteurs also met representatives of the local authorities and non-governmental organisations.