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    Today, Azerbaijan
    Sept 2 2005

    Mats Lindberg held press conference dedicated to fulfillment of CE
    Action Plan on parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan

    02 September 2005 [14:23] - Today.Az

    Special Representative of Council of Europe Secretary General to
    our country Mats Lindberg held press conference dedicated to the
    fulfillment of the Action Plan about the parliamentary elections in
    Azerbaijan confirmed by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers.

    He reminded that, roundtable on elections was held for the government
    and media representatives in July and as the result "Code of
    behavior of mass media of Azerbaijan during the election campaigns"
    appeared. M. Lindberg noted with regret that no all the mass media
    signed the document.

    Calling on all the mass media to join the document, M.Lindberg also
    added that he will recommend Council of Europe Secretary General Terry
    Davis who will be on a visit to Baku next week to draw pro-governmental
    media, opposition-minded media and independent media to join to the
    code of behavior. He stated on behalf of the organization he represents
    that he will do his best to held monitoring of mass media on the
    election campaign: "We have not made decision yet, but I suppose
    the monitoring will cover 40 printed press bodies. There are enough
    professional persons in Azerbaijan to make independent investigation
    .As concerns the monitoring of TVs we shall have talks with TV and
    Radio Council of Azerbaijan regarding this".

    According to him, Council of Europe experts will give trainings for
    the members of CEC, district and precinct electoral committees, and
    make recommendations on how to organize the work of the commissions on
    7-8 September. CE Venice Commission experts will come to Azerbaijan and
    will make recommendations to the CEC on how to work on the applications
    of complaint received after the elections. Venice commission experts
    will also hold trainings for the judges of Azerbaijan. They will be on
    a visit to Baku on 29-30 September and provide trainings on the rules
    of looking into the complaints. It is also planned to hold an event
    on prevention of corruption. In addition, pre-election trainings will
    be given to the police and Interior Forces on how to treat towards
    the people in order not to violate their rights and to preserve law
    and public tranquility. The Code of behavior of Azerbaijani police
    will be prepared in October.

    CE Information Office in Baku has published books entitled "Codex
    of the best experience on election issues", "Balanced participation
    of women and men in politics and in making important decisions
    with regard to the state", "Women's rights to individual voting",
    "Media and elections" and distributed them with regard to the
    forthcoming elections. The office has prepared advertisement reels
    in 3 directions. The goal is to inform the voters about the election
    procedure, propagate elections and make explanation of parliament.

    Posters are made for this purpose too.

    Assessing the current pre-election situation, M.Lindberg noted that,
    the process of registration is going on according to the rule and
    no one has been rejected yet. Stating that the process of delivering
    voter's cards was delayed a little bit, the CE representative hoped
    that these cards will not give opportunity to the voters to vote
    several times on the Election Day.

    Responding to the question on assistance to the CEC in making the list
    of voters of Armenian origin in Khankendi Constituency Election #122,
    he said that he received the appeal yesterday: "I must consult with the
    headquarters. I have to confess that this is a very difficult process".

    /APA/

    URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/20528.html

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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