CIS observer mission considers the constitutional referendum in Belarus valid

International Observer Mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States has adopted a statement on the results of the monitoring of the republican referendum on the introduction of amendments and additions to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, which proposes to recognize the constitutional referendum in the Republic of Belarus as valid. According to TASS, head of the CIS Mission Ilkhom Nematov announced this at a press conference today.
“The referendum on amendments and additions to the Basic Law of the Republic of Belarus is valid,” the agency quotes him as saying.
Ilkhom Nematov emphasized that according to CIS international observers, the Republic of Belarus created all the conditions for the free expression of will of the citizens and “the CIS observers did not find any serious violations that could have altered the results of the referendum.”
According to the head of the CIS mission, “the country has created all the conditions for this event and for the free expression of will of the citizens at the referendum.” “Voting was calm and orderly,” stressed Ilkhom Nematov.
As you may recall, international observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization headed by their coordinator Nikolai Burlyaev, member of the CIS Observer Mission Coordinator Council at the Republican Referendum on Amendments and Additions to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and first deputy Chairman of the Committee on Civil Society Development, Public and Religious Associations of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, worked in the polling stations in Minsk and the Minsk oblast on February 27 from the opening of the stations till the end of vote counting.