An international conference entitled “Armenia’s territorial claims against Azerbaijan and raising the international community’s awareness about the stages of the policy of aggression” has today kicked off at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Azerbaijan in Baku. The event is co-organized by the Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations and Karabakh Research Center Public Union.

Azerbaijan hosts the 5th News Agencies World Congress, the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) and the 22nd session of the Council of CISHeads of News Agencies November 16.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is attending the opening ceremony at the Heydar Aliyev Center. 

A report was discussed Wednesday at the Paris meeting of the PACE Monitoring Committee, within the framework of the mission of the ad hoc Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Member States of the Council of Europe, Elkhan Suleymanov, a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, told APA.

The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is the most unsuccessful and damaging component of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership program. Although created to open new venues of international dialogue, it has become a forum of platitudes, biased discourse and double standards. Instead of providing common solutions to the major problems of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) with the help of the EU, the Euronest assembly is mired in endless irrelevant discussions, with no end-results or implementation powers.

Furthermore, the double-standard approach of the European Parliament (EP) towards the EaP countries serves only to deteriorate further the relevance of Euronest. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) show double standards in their declarations, resolutions and reports towards most of the countries in the Assembly. In particular, despite declaring within the Euronest context that they are open to fair and equal cooperation, despite numerous messages, letters and signs of friendship from the members of the Azerbaijani delegation to Euronest, the Parliament routinely passes documents denigrating the situation in Azerbaijan, full of grave and unfounded accusations.

A referendum to make amendments to the Constitution started across Azerbaijan on September 26.