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Thorbjørn Jagland Secretary General of the Council of Europe Last month in China, President Barack Obama said that criticism on the Internet had made him a better president. There is no doubt that the Internet renders our decision ...

On 10 December, 2009 at 12:00 the Council of Europe will conduct the presentation of its two publications at the Azerbaijan Media Center. The Council of Europe’s publications  “Living together - a handbook on Council of Europe standards on media’s ...

A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, headed by Gaye Doğanoğlu (Turkey, EPP-CD), carries  out a pre-electoral mission to Azerbaijan, in view of the municipal elections scheduled for 23 December 2009. ...

The  Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its ad hoc visit to Azerbaijan in December 2008, together with the response of the Azerbaijani ...

The Commission on Combating Corruption of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe will hold a conference “Advancing Anti-corruption Reforms in Azerbaijan”. The conference will take place on Thursday, 19 November 2009, at the Hotel Ambassador. The ...

A conference on defamation and freedom of expression bringing together public officials, members of parliament and media professionals from Azerbaijan was organised by the Council of Europe and the Azerbaijan Press Council in Baku on 16 November 2009. At ...

On 16 November 2009, the Council of Europe in co-operation with the Azerbaijan Press Council will hold a conference on “Defamation and Freedom of Expression in Azerbaijan”. The conference, which will take place in Park INN Hotel’s Dan Ulduzu hall, ...

Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Christoph Strässer (Germany, SOC), rapporteur on the follow-up to the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), on 12 November ...

Statement by Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland I am concerned about very harsh sentences imposed by the court in Azerbaijan on Adnan Hadjizadeh and Emin Mili. Shortly before the July incident which resulted in their ...

Educational Centre for Youth in co-opeartion with the Council of Europe Information Office in Azerbaijan, within the frames of the activities devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe, announces the essay contest named “Council of Europe for ...