Azerbaijan: Parliament suspends ties with European Parliament over "anti-Azerbaijani activities".

Shotlist Baku, Azerbaijan - April 10, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. National flag of Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan - Oct 1, 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 2. Various of national flags of Azerbaijan, pedestrians Baku, Azerbaijan - Feb 9, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Monument 4. Traffic 5. Aerial shots of city view Brussels, Belgium - May 22, 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 6. Various of European Parliament office building, flags FILE: Strasbourg, France - 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 7. European Parliament building 8. Flags Storyline Azerbaijan's parliament voted on Friday to suspend all cooperation with the European Parliament, in what Baku described as a response to "anti-Azerbaijani activities" by the bloc's legislature. The parliament, known as Milli Majlis, passed a resolution halting cooperation across all tracks with the European Parliament and ending its participation in the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. At the opening of the spring session, Milli Majlis Speaker Sahiba Gafarova announced that the chamber would take responsive measures over what she called anti-Azerbaijani activities by the European Parliament. The legislature simultaneously initiated withdrawal procedures from the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly, a regional inter-parliamentary forum with the European Parliament and parliaments of several other countries. Earlier, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry summoned EU Ambassador Marijana Kujundzic and protested over a European Parliament resolution adopted on Thursday, which Baku said contained unsubstantiated and biased provisions against the country.