“Goran Lennmarker, President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has not made a new report on Nagorno Karabakh conflict”.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David Kramer, who is on a visit to Azerbaijan, met with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Friday.

Foreign ministers of the G8 countries called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to solve Nagorno Karabakh conflict peacefully at their meeting in Kyoto, Japan.

Presidential elections in Azerbaijan and formation of the mission to observe the elections were discussed at the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has appointed member of Azerbaijani delegation to the organization Gultakin Hajiyeva rapporteur for women prisoners.

PACE summer session discussed activity of International Committee of the Red Cross in plenary meeting on June 26.

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Matthew Bryza (USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia) have finalized their visit to Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani human rights defender Afshin Irfan Khosrovshahi was killed in Iran.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) discussed the situation in Turkey on June 26. Rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Turkey Luc Van den Brande made a report on "the functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey".

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe finalized extraordinary hearings on the activity of democratic institutions in Armenia.

“Azerbaijan is an important member of the Council of Europe and we connect with Azerbaijani Government constantly”.

“I agree with the thoughts voiced in the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in regard with the activity of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan”, said Janni Bukikkio, the Secretary of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe at the press conference held in Strasbourg.

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“Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is free to issue resolutions and I will not make a comment on that”, said Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe at the press conference on June 25 in Strasbourg.

Discussions on the theme “Enhancing the independence of women in multicultural and modern societies” have been held in the plenary sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe yesterday.