The Council of Europe's European Commission (CEEC) for Struggle against Racism and Intolerance has published its report on Azerbaijan Thursday. The report indicated a number of progresses during this period, including in the sphere of education. Thus, the situation of accepting in state schools children whose parents do not have citizenship or who are not granted legal position has improved. Besides, a certain work has been carried out in the direction of creating conditions for national minorities to study their native language, as well as protecting their rights.

However, some Azeri officials and politicians continue to make statements of racial and provocative character, which encourage religious intolerance. Besides, a certain category of persons who do not have citizenship encounter difficulties in getting legal position, the report says. The document calls on the Azeri government to undertake measures, among which is the necessity to organize trainings for judicial workers in using anti-racism and intolerance legislation. Also the reports offers to create a specialized structure on the struggle against racism and appropriate conditions for peaceful settlement to the Nmagorno Karabakh conflict, Trend reports.