23/05/2008 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 23.05.2008 – The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is due to approve a draft report on “the functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan” on Tuesday 27 May 2008 during its meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine.
“This report will lay out a road map for the authorities ahead of the October Presidential election,” said co-rapporteurs Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), speaking on the eve of the meeting. The report is due to be debated by the Assembly during its summer plenary session (23-27 June 2008).
Azerbaijan is one of eleven countries subject to PACE’s monitoring procedure, which involves regular visits to a country and dialogue to help it meet its Council of Europe obligations and commitments.
Draft agenda (PDF)
Contact: PACE Communication Unit, tel. +33 (0)3 88 41 31 93, e-mail [email protected]