Dear ladies and gentlemen,
Recalling that membership in the Council of Europe is based on voluntary appeals to European states and acceptance of voluntary gentlemanly obligations to these states, we note that the fulfillment of these obligations is completely forgotten after the seizure of power by many authoritarian governments. Thus, the authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan which joined the Council of Europe in January 2001 ignored the conventions as well as many other obligations that could protect the main indigenous peoples of the country from the policy of assimilation and