Azerbaijan accepts PACE Monitoring Committee’s report as main document
Azerbaijan considers the report prepared about the country by the co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee to be the true and recognizable document, as opposed to PACE rapporteur Christoph Strasser's report on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, Samad Seyidov told journalists on Friday, Trend news agency reported.
The reports disseminated by a number of media representatives on the exclusion of some names from the list of political prisoners prepared by Strasser is not true, Seyidov said.
"It is possible that names on this list prepared by the Monitoring Committee and Strasser will coincide. Azerbaijan can not use Strasser's report which pursues different goals. We are working with the report prepared by the Monitoring Committee," Seyidov said.
He also said that Armenia will demonstrate a biased position towards Azerbaijan as usual.
"Armenia has always demonstrated a biased position on matters related to Azerbaijan. I am sure that at the PACE winter session, Armenia will act against our country and align itself with other bodies that are against Azerbaijan. Armenia has become even more active on this matter, because for the first time, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was mentioned in PACE's report on Azerbaijan. Appearance of an alternative, Armenian backed document related to Nagorno-Karabakh is inevitable, as Yerevan will not be able to seriously interfere with the existing one," he said.