CSTO PA observers were present at the opening of polling stations in Astana

International observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, by their coordinator Vagharshak Hakobyan, member of the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Socioeconomic and Legal Issues, deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs and Eurasian Integration of the National Assembly of the republic of Armenia, were present at the opening of polling stations in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Akmola Oblast today, November 20, 2022.

Polling stations opened on time: exactly at 7:00 a.m. Astana time.

International observers from the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly are currently monitoring the voting process at polling stations in Astana and in Akmola Oblast. International observers were also present at the opening of a foreign polling station in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic).

In accordance with the decision of Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the CSTO PA Council, 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 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 on the principles of political neutrality, objectivity, non-interference in the referendum and observation of laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and in full compliance with the norms of the Convention on Standards of Democratic Elections, the Voting Rights and Freedoms in the State Parties of the CIS.