At its Monday sitting the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided to send a 30-member observer mission to the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference organized in the frames of PACE summer session.

Cavusoglu noted that the Azerbaijani government invited a PACE observer mission to monitor the parliamentary elections. A relevant commission will be set up. Besides, a 5-member mission will arrive in Azerbaijan a month before the elections start, he said. Fair, transparent and democratic elections will mark a decade of Azerbaijan’s membership in PACE.

Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are scheduled for this autumn. The previous elections were held in November 2005.