The summer session of the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe started in Strasburg. The agenda of the session to last till June 27 includes issues touching upon the interests of both Yerevan and Baku. Armenia has already heard the criticism addressed to it. The PACE MPs mentioned the serious shortcomings noticed during the Parliamentary elections held in the end of May. They took into account the evaluation of the PACE observers which nevertheless described the elections as a ''step forward in the way to the democracy''. Nobody spoke about sanctions towards Armenia, and the issue on recognition of plenipotentiaries of Armenian MPs was postponed for the next session. The situation with Azerbaijan is a little bit different. The PACE bureau has refused to the Azerbaijani delegation asking to postpone the discussion of the issue on political prisoners for January.