2024-10-04 22:54:30
The Commonwealth of Independent States plans to send observers to the presidential elections in Azerbaijan and Russia, as well as to the parliamentary and local self-government elections in Belarus in February 2024. CIS General Secretary Sergey Lebedev said this in response to TASS’s question.
“Next year is the year of elections in the leading states of our Commonwealth. The first elections will be held on February 9 in Azerbaijan – presidential elections. we have already received the invitation. Then parliamentary elections in Belarus. And presidential elections in the Russian Federation in March,” he said before the start of the regular session of the Council of Permanent Representatives of the CIS member states at the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk.
Lebedev noted that the CIS Executive Committee “is already preparing for the observation of these elections”.
“We have received an invitation to create a CIS mission and send it to observe the elections,” he emphasized.
The General Secretary of the Commonwealth clarified that until now a written invitation to send an observation mission has been received only from Baku.
“We were told about it verbally, but so far we have received in writing only from Azerbaijan, they will hold the elections first,” added Lebedev.
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