CSTO PA observers begin work at the election of the President of Kazakhstan

International observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization have arrived in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, on November 18 and have started monitoring the preparation and voting process at the early election of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan of September 21, 2022, the early election is scheduled to take place on November 20, 2022.
As you may recall, in accordance with the decision of Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and at the invitation of Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on September 24, 2022, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly has formed a group of international observers to monitor the preparation and voting at the early election of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Vagharshak Hakobyan, member of the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Socioeconomic and Legal Issues, deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on Regional Issues and Eurasian Integration, head of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship Between Armenia and Kazakhstan, was appointed as the coordinator of the group of international observers from the Parliamentary Assembly.
The group consists of international observers representing supreme legislative bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
The international observers from the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly plan to have a number of meetings at the CEC of the Republic of Kazakhstan; with representatives of public campaign offices of candidates for the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and representatives of the executive and supreme legislative authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
On the day of voting at the presidential election in the Republic of Kazakhstan, international observers of the CSTO PA, according to individual itineraries, will monitor voting at polling stations in Astana and Akmola Oblast from their opening until the end of the vote count.