PACE

Georgian Dream's delegation quits PACE after losing key powers

Georgia - EU

January 30, 2025

PACE demands Georgia free political prisoners and hold new elections by April 2025

Georgian opposition coalitions urge PACE not to confirm credentials of Georgian delegation

Georgia - EU

January 09, 2025

"The delegation that Georgian Dream may send to the Assembly will consist solely of representatives of the illegitimate regime."

PACE report: International observers' car intentionally damaged on election day

2024 elections in Georgia

December 25, 2024

"Violations cast doubt on the fairness of the electoral process and the legitimacy of its results"

'Immediate release of Armenian POWs' and other provisions of the PACE resolution

Azerbaijan-Armenia

September 29, 2021

PACE adopts resolution on the second Karabakh war, calling for the immediate release of the Armenian prisoners of war and contains provisions on war crimes and responsibility for instigating the conflict

PACE to discuss issue of Armenian PoWs left in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan-Armenia

April 19, 2021

The deputies of the Armenian parliament stated that Baku was holding about 200 Armenian prisoners of war, to which the Azerbaijani delegation only objected that these people were not prisoners, but terrorists.

Azerbaijan continues to argue about the role of a member of the opposition REAL party in parliament

Opposition in Azerbaijan

May 01, 2020

Opposition member Erkin Qadirli has joined the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, and social media users are wondering whether he’ll remain a ‘real opposition’ figure

“New round of repression” has begun in Azerbaijan, says PACE

Coronavirus

March 26, 2020

MEPs are shocked by the statements of Ilham Aliyev, and human rights organizations demand that he release detained opposition members

Azerbaijan annuls results of elections in several constituencies – why?

February 14, 2020

Candidates will fight for some seats in parliament again

Azerbaijani president calls PACE resolution ‘scrap of paper’

February 06, 2020

President Aliyev said that the Council of Europe is ‘degrading’ and Azerbaijan will not comply with its requirements

PACE, Venice Commission call for resolution to Armenian Constitutional Court drama

February 05, 2020

Head of the Venice Commission and observers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe call for the “open conflict” between the government and the court to be resolved

German politicians accused of taking bribes from Azerbaijani authorities

February 01, 2020

Bundestag MP Karin Strentz has been stripped of her MP immunity status, and a search carried out of her home and offices

Russian weapons, Georgian crime bosses and femicide in Azerbaijan - 'Week in the Caucasus' from JAMnews

February 01, 2020

The week of 27 January-1 February 2020 in just 90 seconds

PACE debates: are there political prisoners in Azerbaijan?

January 31, 2020

The Azerbaijani delegation has denied the accusation and instead accused the PACE speaker of bias, and was supported by by some deputies from Russia and Turkey

Georgian president’s CoE speech gives rise to controversy back home

January 29, 2020

President Salome Zurabishvili says she is ready to have the Russian CoE delegation in Georgia and considers the brutal dispersal of rallies in Tbilisi over the summer legitimate