Azerbaijan parliament to be recalled in June

Azerbaijan’s parliament is to convene for an extraordinary session, local media revealed on Tuesday morning.

The session, in June, will take place upon the requests of MPs, with two plenary meetings as well as meetings of several parliamentary committees. The last plenary meeting of the 2016 spring session is taking place on Tuesday. 

The reasons behind the recall were not immediately clear from the report, published by the APA.az news agency.

SOURCE: commonspace.eu and agencies

PHOTO: The Azerbaijan parliament

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