PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan plan to visit the country in the near future, PACE co-rapporteur Stefan Schennach said in a tweet.

The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was held in Strasbourg, France, on January 22-26. Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, chairman of the parliamentary committee on international and interparliamentary relations Samad Seyidov says that the PACE session was fruitful from the point of view of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy.

A report on ‘Improvement of the international rules against the death penalty and trade in goods used during torture’ presented by member of Azerbaijani delegation Vusal Huseynov was heard and adopted at the PACE winter session Jan. 26.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) should abandon dual standards, Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva said at the PACE winter session in Strasbourg on Jan. 26.

The report of member of the Azerbaijani delegation, Sevinj Fataliyeva, titled “Protection of children affected during armed conflicts”, will be heard and discussed at the PACE winter session on Jan. 25.

Denmark's Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen, who is the new Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, encouraged Azerbaijan and Armenia to follow their commitments before the CoE on peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, when speaking at the winter session of PACE on January 23.

Azerbaijan is very sensitive to the issue of rights of the national minorities, in particular their languages, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee for Cultural Affairs Rafael Huseynov said at the PACE session on January 22.

In Azerbaijan, there have been criminal law measures to increase the use of non-custodial sentences, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland said at PACE winter session.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected its Vice-Presidents at the opening of its Winter plenary Session on January 22.

Azerbaijan's delegation to PACE will include new members, before participating in the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said Samad Seyidov, head of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation, the Azerbaijani Parliament told Trend Jan. 5.