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BRUSSELS\u2014The European Parliament ethics committee is set to censure a group of nine lawmakers who are suspected of accepting favors from Azerbaijan during an electoral observation mission there in October last year, the EurActive.com<\/a> news portal reported Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Kriistina Ojuland of Estonia, Jacek W\u0142osowicz of Poland, Slavi Binev of Bulgaria, Jir\u00ed Ma\u0161t\u00e1lka of the Czech Republic, Ivo Vajgl of Slovenia, Alexandra Thein of Germany, Hannu Takkula of Finland, Oleg Valjalo of Croatia, and Nick Griffin of the UK all flew to Azerbaijan last October to monitor the elections.<\/p>\n

However, they purportedly \u201cforgot\u201d to tell Parliament that they had been invited by the Azeri government and did not declare the trip on their website, as required by the Assembly\u2019s new code of conduct.<\/p>\n

The committee is also questioning whether the European Parliament members were rewarded for this task, on top of the paid trip.<\/p>\n

After their mission, the group produced a report describing the elections as \u201cfree and fair.\u201d Embarrassingly, their assessment was radically different from that of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which found \u201cserious problems\u201d related to freedom of expression and assembly.<\/p>\n

In a report published in November, the European Stability Initiative, a think-tank, had already rung the alarm about the way the Azeri elections were being monitored more generally.<\/p>\n

According to the European Parliament\u2019s new code of conduct, adopted last July, any kind of present, invitation to a football game, show or trip must be mentioned on the lawmaker\u2019s website if its price exceeds 150 euros.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy to see that the European Parliament actually is doing something about the caviar diplomacy snaked in Brussels,\u201d said European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (ANCA Europe) Executive Director Bedo Demirdjian. \u201cI hope they will open their eyes on falsifications of history and facts that are being committed by Azerbaijan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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