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The European Commission against racism and intolerance (ECRI) will provide a new report and recommendations to the Azerbaijani authorities on the situation in the field of combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance, the organization said. The report will be developed upon the results of a five-day monitoring.

An ECRI delegation visited Azerbaijan from Sept.27 to Oct.1, 2010 as the first step in the preparation of a monitoring report. During its visit, ECRI´s delegation gathered information on the implementation of the recommendations it made to the authorities in its previous report of 2007 and discussed new issues that have emerged since.

The monitoring group stated the unsolved problem of Nagorno-Karabakh created at atmosphere of intolerance against Armenians in Azerbaijan.

The European Commission pointed all those shortcomings in the Azerbaijani legislation in the aftermath of which the national minorities appeared in a status of “no citizen.”