Azerbaijan again missed the opportunity of corresponding to the European election standards, Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer stated upon the completion of the presidential election in Azerbaijan. He censured the acts of violence that followed the election and appealed to the country leadership and the opposition to "to mind their action with sense of responsibility". "The newly elected president should immediately apply considerable democratic reforms, the main flow of which the dialogue with the opposition must be", - W. Schwimmer said.