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Working Group and Sub-Working Groups meetings on the National Execution Strategy and Action Plan for the Execution of European Court of Human Rights Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights by the Republic of Azerbaijan were held on 15th and 18th December 2023

On 15 December 2023, a second working group meeting was held in Baku for the elaboration of the National Strategy for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights by the Republic of Azerbaijan and corresponding Action Plan. The National Strategy was adopted at the end of the meeting and Action Plan will be finalized for the stakeholders adoption after incorporating remarks and discussions made during the meeting by project consultants.

As a follow up of the working group meeting, three separate sub-working group meetings organized on backlog of cases pending execution, interagency coordination with an emphasis on development of functional inter agency coordination mechanism in execution of ECtHR judgments, and the functions/structure of analytical departments with the focus on enhancement of the analytical capacities of justice stakeholders in application of human rights concepts. During the Sub-Working Group meetings, further discussions on the implementation of actions on the Action Plan have taken place, with particular attention to a comparative approach from other CoE states.

Both meetings were conducted in hybrid format with the participation of the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and the project partner representatives, namely the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Milli Majlis), the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Justice Academy, the “Center for Legal Examination and Legislative Initiatives”, the “Institute of Law and Human Rights” and  the Azerbaijani Bar Association.

The meetings were organized within the Council of Europe Project on “Support for the improvement of the execution of the European Court judgments by Azerbaijan”.

Baku, Azerbaijan 21 December 2023
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