CSTO PA observers decided which polling stations to visit in Astana and the region

International observers from the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly held a coordination meeting in Astana, discussed strategies for monitoring voting in the early election of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, studied election laws and determined routes to polling stations in Astana and the Akmola Oblast on the election day, November 20, 2022.
The meeting was attended by international observers – parliamentarians of the CSTO Member States, plenipotentiary representatives of the parliaments of the CSTO Member States in the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and the CSTO PA Secretariat.
As you may recall, in accordance with the decision of Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Council of the CSTO PA, and at the invitation of Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 24, 2022, the CSTO PA 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, was appointed as the coordinator of the CSTO PA observers.
The group consists of representatives of 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.
International observers from the CSTO PA operate based on the Convention on Standards of Democratic Elections, the Voting Rights and Freedoms in the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States (the Chisinau Convention) and the principles of political neutrality, objectivity, non-interference in the referendum and observation of laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.