Baku/07.01.20/Turan: Ambassador Peter Tejler, Head of the ODIHR Election Observation Mission will hold a press conference at 14:00, on Tuesday, 7 January 2020. It will be an opening press conference by the ODIHR observers to the early parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
It will include an introduction to the role of the mission in the elections and its planned activities.
Recall that the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission visited Baku on December 19-21, and held a series of meetings and examined the election situation in the country. Their role was to make recommendations for a long-term observer mission that would follow the campaign and the February 9 vote. -02D-
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