Venice Commission is ready to work with Azerbaijan

  25 August 2016    Read: 1340
Venice Commission is ready to work with Azerbaijan
The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe stands ready to work on a request for opinion on the draft constitutional amendments, the subject of the 26 September referendum in Azerbaijan, the commission external relations officer, Tatiana Mychelova, told on Aug.25.
According to her, the cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Venice Commission is very limited during few past years in general.

“However, so far we have not received a request from the Azerbaijani authorities nor from the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe or international organizations,” Mychelova noted.

Earlier, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to hold a referendum on Sept. 26 for making amendments to the country’s Constitution.

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