President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Hendrik Daems thanked Georgian Foreign Minister and Permanent Representative of Georgia to the Council of Europe (CoE) for the work done during Georgian’s six-month chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (CM) of the CoE, Trend reports citing Georgian media.

The new composition of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has been determined, Head of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee on International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Samad Seyidov told Trend on April 27.

The Parliament of Azerbaijan has sent a letter of protest to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) due to the fact that the assembly has not expressed any reaction to the so-called "elections" held by Armenia in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, Speaker of the Parliament Sahiba Gafarova said at a parliamentary meeting held on April 17, Trend reports.

The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), Sir Roger Gale (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Sunna Ævarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), have welcomed the decree of President Ilham Aliyev pardoning 176 prisoners aged over 65 in need of special care, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Trend reports citing the PACE website on April 10.

Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Azerbaijan made another biased statement against the country on March 25, Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe Fakhraddin Ismayilov told Trend.

The final statement of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be made public in April, Member of the PACE observation mission, co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan Stefan Schennach told Trend.

In its resolution on alleged political prisoners in Azerbaijan, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) appreciated Azerbaijan’s cooperation with its speakers, Member of the Russian delegation to PACE, head of the State Duma’s Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky told reporters.

Azerbaijan evaluates the recommendations of the Council of Europe and always tries to act in the interests of both parties, said Nagif Hamzayev at the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on January 28 at a hearing in the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Trend reports.

A 25-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), will travel to Azerbaijan from 7 to 10 February to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Trend reports citing PACE’s website.

Naqif Hamzayev has been elected a member of the bureau and deputy chair of the PACE Subcommittee on Disability, Pluralism and Discrimination.