CAVIAR DIPLOMACY. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe - Part 1
CAVIAR DIPLOMACY. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe - Part 1

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Diplomatic history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Keywords: Heydar Aliyev; Ilham Aliyev; Azerbaijan’s democracy; Azerbaijan’s diplomacy; Council of Europe;
Summary/Abstract: Caviar diplomacy was about winning and retaining the stamp of legitimacy conferred by Council of Europe membership. Created in 1949, the Council of Europe is not Europe’s most influential club. Indeed, faced with the European Union’s bewildering institutional architecture, many of Europe’s citizens have long since forgotten about it. But in its quiet and unassuming way, the Council of Europe stands for democracy and human rights. For more than half a century, it has symbolised the values that bind Europe together. To be a member of the Council of Europe is to be part of the European family. || Over the course of the project, we spoke to a large number of international officials, Azerbaijanis, members of PACE and people involved in election observation missions in Azerbaijan. We studied transcripts of Council of Europe debates on Azerbaijan and dissected election observation reports by international monitors.

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