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.

Introduction

After careful scrutiny, I defined twenty elements proving that the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission (hereafter VC) preliminary opinion (hereafter PO) is not impartial in its approach towards towards Azerbaijan.

“Opinion Way” Market Research company in France  made a survey among people in order to appreciate pre-referendum environment in the country.

During the survey, face-to-face interviews were done  with 1200 respondents , who were chosen randomly and  interviews covered whole territory of Azerbaijan.

Survey form, which was consisted of 3 blocks and 12 questions, was used for investigation and these questions were prepared to investigate social-demographic indicators of respondents, their opinions on current political-economic environment in the country and attitutude to the issues put in the upcoming referendum.

During the survey, 82% of respondents said that they were pleased about functioning of political system in the Republic of Azerbaijan and 93% of them think that it works well in Azerbaijan.

96% of respondents told that President Ilham Aliyev does his job very well.

Respondents, who think that there are some problems in our republic,  appreciated Azerbaijani- Armenian  Nagorno Karabakh conflict (77%) and  economic challange (41%) as the most problematic issues for country.

81% of the respondents said that they would attend the Referendum, which would take place on September 26. Only 5% of the respondents are confused about their final decision on participation in the voting.

87% of the whole respondents noted that proposed  additions and modifications to Constitution were inevitable.  According to 88% of the respondents, any proposed additions and modifications to the Constitution will affect positively to development of proper fields. Especially, respondents think that proposals related to security and defence, human rights and constitutional guarantee will stimulate development of these fields.