Friday, September 13 2024 14:42

ArmInfo.At the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on September 30 -  October 4 in Strasbourg, the deteriorating human rights situation in Azerbaijan will be discussed.

This is reported by Turan.  It is noted  that this issue is tentatively included in the agenda of the session  on the first day of September 30 under the wording: "Urgent procedure  debate: . 

Based on the results of the debate, recommendations to the Committee  of Ministers of the Council of Europe on measures against Azerbaijan  for failure to fulfill its obligations to the organization may be  adopted. The "Vaclav Havel Prize" will also be awarded at the session  and one of the three candidates is imprisoned Azerbaijani activist  Akif Gurbanov. 

As observers note, a new round of relations escalation between  Azerbaijan and the PACE occurred after Baku imposed an entry ban on  the deputies who voted in favor of suspending the powers of the  country's delegation January this year. President Ilham Aliyev,  speaking at a conference in Italy a week ago, said that the ban could  be lifted only after the powers of Azerbaijan's delegation to PACE  were restored. In this regard, Frank Schwabe, the head of the Germany  delegation to PACE, urged Baku not to try to the Council  of Europe, but to fulfill its obligations to the organization, Turan  reports.