1 July 2003 • 00:00 AMT
SANCTIONS TOWARDS AZERBAIJAN WILL BE PROBABLY IMPOSED IN SEPTEMBER
The Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe has decided to postpone for the next session the voting of the report submitted by the Belgian journalist George Clarfight concerning the situation with the political prisoners of Azerbaijan. So, the discussion of the issue on imposing sanctions towards this country is postponed for other 3 and half months. This is the deadline. And it would be naive to suppose that till September Aliyev's regime will release more than 200 political prisoners. This means that in September Azerbaijan may be deprived of the right of vote in the PACE and even of the membership in this organization.
