Azerbaijan faces double standards in PACE

  30 January 2016    Read: 1448
Azerbaijan faces double standards in PACE
The recent decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is another indicator of a double-standard approach to Azerbaijan, the first vice-speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament Ziyafat Asgarov told reporters on Jan. 30.
According to him, the recent decision of PACE once again showed the ineffectiveness of international law.

“International law for large states is work, but for small states is restriction. Large states use international law to achieve their goals and we all are witnessing this,” Asgarov stressed.

The draft resolution titled “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” by Robert Walter was put to the vote as part of the PACE winter session Jan. 26 and it was rejected with 70 deputies having voted in favor, 66 against and 45 abstained.

Ilhan Kesici, MP from Turkish CHP, a member of the Turkish delegation to PACE said he voted in favor of the resolution but his vote was considered abstention.

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