POLITICS
CIS observers start monitoring mission in Azerbaijan
Baku, October 15, AZERTAC
Following an official invitation to observe the 1 November 2015 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, CIS observers have officially launched the monitoring mission here on Wednesday. Chair of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Sergey Lebedev was approved as head of the CIS Election Monitoring Mission, AZERTAC quoted CIS observers mission headquarters as saying in a statement. According to the statement, the mission will build its work in compliance with generally recognized principles and norms of international law on the organization and conduction of elections, the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the principles of respect for the sovereignty of the country and noninterference in the electoral process.