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.
