The first spring-session meeting of the Milli Majlis Human Rights Committee took place on 24 January. Opening it, the committee chairman Zahid Oruj wished the colleagues success during the session and said that today’s agenda dealt with the performance report on the 2021 autumn session and the to-do plan for the current one.

Mr Oruj remarked as the performance report was being discussed that the committee had held nine meetings having discussed, amongst others, the Media Bill, which had been talked over upon various platforms and, in addition, was put up for hearings. Mr Oruj also went through the meetings, deliberations and other events held during the last session of 2021.

The committee had received 470 documents in that period. Citizens’ applications and appeals had been examined thoroughly; appropriate steps had been taken. A portion of the feedback had been forwarded to the appropriate agencies so steps should be taken to resolve the issues brought up in those letters.

The deputy chair of the committee Tahir Karimli and the MPs Hikmat Mammadov, Naghif Hamzayev, Razi Nurullayev and Elman Nasirov talked about the parliament having done well on all its tasks in the past period and of the parliamentary diplomacy having been employed successfully. The speakers also expressed their opinions about the items on the committee meeting agenda and touched on both the activities of the committee and the interaction with constituents. They approved the presented document then.

That was followed by the work plan for the spring session of 2022. Zahid Oruj mentioned the forthcoming discussion of incoming draft laws and other documents, stressing that, apart from issuing opinion statements and making suggestions, the committee was also to organise and conduct a series of relevant hearings. The committee chairman also shared his ideas about the regulation of both the Great Return to the de-occupied territories and of the reintegration of those provinces.

The work plan was commented by the deputy chairman of the committee Tahir Karimli and the MPs Bahrouz Maharramov, Elshad Mirbashiroglu and Naghif Hamzayev as well as by Sarvan Sadigov who heads the Human Rights Legislation Sector in the State-Building, Administrative and Defence Legislation Department in the Milli Majlis Staff. The MPs reacted to the ideas of holding hearings and debates about regulation of the defence of the human rights in general and of women’s rights in particular. Finally, the work plan was put on vote and approved subsequently.

The committee meeting also attended by the MPs Jala Ahmadova and Fazil Mustafa and other official persons was over there.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis