Three members of the European Parliament have called for sanctions against Azerbaijani officials responsible for the country's human rights situation.
The EU Parliament has called on the EU to end its gas dependency on Baku, and for the imposition of sanctions against Azerbaijani officials over human rights violations in the country, and individuals who threaten Armenia In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs cited ‘worrying reports’ of Russian gas being rebranded as Azerbaijani for export to the EU, thereby bypassing Western sanctions. They also noted Azerbaijan’s deepening ties with Russia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2
Senior figures in the ruling Georgian Dream party have dismissed criticism from a Member of the European Parliament who questioned the Georgian government’s commitment to joining the bloc. They were responding to criticism made by Marina Kaljurand while chairing the 12th meeting of the EU–Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee on Thursday. Kaljurand said Georgia was lagging behind Ukraine and Moldova and that its fulfilment of the 12 recommendations laid out by the EU for its candidate
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili’s expression of support for an anti-government protest in Abkhazia and their alleged objections to Russia, in a speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, was condemned by Abkhazia’s government and opposition. Ending a 13-year hiatus since a Georgian president had last addressed the European Parliament, Zurabishvili spoke in Brussels on Wednesday, discussing Georgia’s ‘European path’, arguing for Georgia to be granted EU candidate status, and suggest
The European Parliament has called for a UN-mandated OSCE mission to replace the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, criticising the Russian mission for failing to resolve the Lachin Corridor blockade. The resolution adopted on Thursday also condemned Azerbaijan for the closure of the Lachin Corridor. It called for a UN or OSCE fact-finding mission to be deployed to the Lachin Corridor to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground. The European Parliament called for the EU to be a
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the Azerbaijani government to release all Armenian prisoners of war and civilian captives. A majority of European Parliament members, 607 of 688, voted in support of the resolution. The resolution text referred to ‘worrying reports’ that ‘approximately 200 Armenians’ are being held in Azerbaijani captivity — Azerbaijan has only acknowledged that it has 72 Armenians in captivity, who officials claim are not POWs but terror suspects.
Despite the European Court of Human Rights awarding compensation to dozens of activists and opposition figures in Azerbaijan, many say the government is not paying up. According to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), 190 appeals from Azerbaijan were filed with the Court from January–July 2018, 28 of which received decisions. Asabali Mustafayev, head of local rights group the Democracy and Human Rights Resource Centre, told OC Media that there are currently about 20 people in Azerba
