Hard tests expect Azerbaijan at the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), "Zerkalo" Baku newspaper writes. In the words of head of the Azeri delegation to the PACE Samed Seidov, the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan will be discussed at the PACE session January 27, after which a corresponding decision will be passed. Meanwhile, Azeri human rights organizations keep stating that the problem of political prisoners in the country remains one of the most acute. In spite of the fact that the Azeri leadership unambiguously denies the presence of political prisoners in the country, the international community, specifically the Council of Europe (CE), considers the problem in a diametrically opposite perspective. Anyway, either the leadership of Azerbaijan, which flatly denies the fact of availability of political prisoners, will nevertheless have to fully solve the problem or, as before, it will not go beyond quasi-measures like pardoning a few tens or maybe more than one hundred people, which the international community in the person of the CE will hardly like. Meanwhile, according to "Turan" agency referring to an informed source in the CE, the report of one of Azeri TV channels that PACE secretary general Walter Schwimmer has allegedly criticized European rapporteur Andreas Gross for his "biased" stand regarding Azerbaijan, is false. The country authorities are constantly trying to convince their own population that A. Gross' position causes the PACE leadership displeasure and creates problems in interrelations between Baku and Strasbourg. Actually everything is just the opposite and these are exactly the Baku actions that cause problems and rouse censure of PACE members, the source accentuated. Official and unofficial sources in Baku have repeatedly disseminated reports that the issue of situation in Azerbaijan has allegedly been withdrawn from the PACE January session agenda and as if Adreas Gross has been removed from preparation of the report. "All such actions can only make one regret, as they do not promote creation of an atmosphere of mutual understanding between Baku and Strasbourg," the source noted.