The chairman of the European security organisation, OSCE, Bronislaw Geremek, who's visiting Azerbaijan, has urged a group of newspaper editors to end their hunger strike, now in its second week.

Mr Geremek met the striking journalists in the capital, Baku, and reassured them that the OSCE would get seriously involved in developing a free press in Azerbaijan.

The editors are protesting against a vawe of libel actions brought by the government.