CIS mission observing referendum in Azerbaijan

By  Trend

An observer mission of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS), headed by Deputy Chairman of Council of Federation of the Russian Federal Assembly Ilyas Umakhanov, is monitoring the constitutional referendum in Azerbaijan.

The mission began monitoring at the second polling station of the 29th Sabayil constituency in Baku, Azerbaijan.

In total, the mission includes 22 observers – MPs and representatives of high legislative bodies of the six members of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Tajikistan) as well as employees of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat.

The voting for making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution kicked off at 08:00 and will wrap up at 19:00 (UTC/GMT +4).