A sign of the increasing uselessness of international bodies is that they have trouble getting the obvious right.
Earlier this week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) received a report on Azerbaijan’s democratic development. While the report itself was uneven (more on this below), it nevertheless almost got the most obvious truths of Azerbaijan’s current politics right, and then only after a fight.
The report correctly recognizes that — as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has noted — the Presidential elections of 2013 were “free, fair and transparent.” This was in no small part reflected …read more
Source: CXSSR