Leaders of European Council, Eastern Partnership countries are to reiterate and confirm the strategic importance of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), Trend reports with reference to the European Council.

Azerbaijan has ranked 7th among the 50 member states of the Council of Europe, and 1st among the CIS countries according to the recent report of Group of States against Corruption, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption monitoring body.

The Council of Europe behaves like a bully, Director General of the Russian Institute of Political Studies, well-known Russian expert Sergey Markov told Trend.

Double standards and discrimination by the Council of Europe are applied to those who have their own opinion and don’t seek to imitate the so-called European “democracy”, Russian political observer, conflict expert Yevgeniy Mikhailov told Trend.

The prestige of the Council of Europe has fallen significantly in the region and the world, as a result of the unprincipled position of this international structure, which it has been unequivocally demonstrating in recent years, a famous Russian expert and a prominent public figure and publicist Dmitry Verkhoturov told Trend.

The latest tough attacks by the Council of Europe are related to the fact that Azerbaijan pursues an independent policy, and in such an unstable world its policy remains reliable and prudent, Head of the ‘Russia-Eurasia: Cultural Politics in Strengthening of Interethnic and Interreligious Peace’ Mikhail Chernov told Trend.

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture continues the work on creating new and developing the existing cultural routes in the country, connecting to the network of cultural routes of the Council of Europe, creating closer relations with this organization and Azerbaijan’s decent representation in it, a source in the ministry told Trend.

The unjust attitude of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has once again reminded one that we live in an age of hypocrisy and double standards.

The European Council has adopted a revised regulation concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply, said the message on the Council’s website.

The European Union expanded the list of sanctions against North Korea in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution of September 11, 2017, including three legal entities and one individual, the EU press service reported.