{"id":46683,"date":"2017-10-12T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1905.az\/?p=46683"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:07:54","slug":"mp-samad-seyidov-accuses-council-europe-biased-attitude-towards-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/mp-samad-seyidov-accuses-council-europe-biased-attitude-towards-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Samad Seyidov accuses Council of Europe of biased attitude towards Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Discussions were held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/Council-of-Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><span>\u00a0(<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/PACE\">PACE<\/a><span>) following the presentation of two reports \u201cThe functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan\u201d by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania, EPP\/CD), and \u201cAzerbaijan\u2019s Chairmanship of the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/Council-of-Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><span>: What follow-up on respect for human rights?\u201d by Alain Destexhe.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/15077252884730151772_1000x669.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speakers highly appreciated the reports, an<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.az\/\">APA<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>correspondent reported from Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>Former<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/PACE\">PACE<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>President Anne Brasseu, other parliamentarians Omtzigt Pieter, Frank Schwabe and Christoph Str\u00e4sser spoke out against Azerbaijan, calling for the release of Ilgar Mammadov and the solution of the problems of journalists and civil society representatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/Samad-Seyidov\">Samad Seyidov<\/a>, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/PACE\">PACE<\/a>, responded to criticism from the parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>He harshly reacted to the accusations of Dutch MP Omtzigt Pieter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Omtzigt, do not be zealous and do not try to portray yourself as an objective person through your statements and remarks in the name of democracy in Azerbaijan. We know very well which forces are behind you. You\u2019re working together with Armenians. Your objectivity can only be imaginary,\u201d Seyidov said.<\/p>\n<p>Seyidov then accused the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/Council-of-Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>of demonstrating a bias attitude towards Azerbaijan and pursuing the policy of double standards in relation to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary General of the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/Council-of-Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>has recently been criticizing Azerbaijan. Instead of demonstrating an equal and unbiased attitude towards all member states, he mentions only one country,\u201d he said, adding. \u201cWhy the [secretary general] shows a different attitude towards Russia in order to make it rejoin the organization, but when it comes to us, he acts completely different?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vusal Huseynov, a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/tag\/PACE\">PACE<\/a>, also accused parliamentarians Omtzigt Pieter and\u00a0Schwabe Frank of representing the interests of Armenian lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions were held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the\u00a0Council of Europe\u00a0(PACE) following the presentation of two reports \u201cThe functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan\u201d by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania, EPP\/CD), and \u201cAzerbaijan\u2019s Chairmanship of the\u00a0Council of Europe: What follow-up on respect for human rights?\u201d by Alain Destexhe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-news-2"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}