ARMENIAN NGO THAT WANTS TO WATCH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN HAS FACED BLANK WALL OF MISUNDERSTANDING

YEREVAN, AUGUST 29. ARMINFO. The Central Electoral Commission
of Azerbaijan did not respond to the application of the Armenian
charitable nongovernmental organization ‘Azat Hayk’ to include it in
the list of the international organizations on monitoring over the
parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, Leader of Azat Hayk Rouben
Mnatsakanian informed ARMINFO.

“In the main to the Azeri CEC from 20.07.05 our organization
pledged itself to undertake all the financial costs of the mission
of the observers and the refusal means that the Azerbaijani CEC
has something to conceal”, Mnatsakanian said. According to him, the
CEC did not answer either the e-mail or the fax. In this connection
the nongovernmental organization has appealed to the Yerevan-based
offices of international organizations, as well as diplomatic
representations of different countries with a request to assist
sending a fax release. But oral refusal was received from all.

Mnatsakanian mentioned that the organization Azat Hayk has carried
out a monitoring over parliamentary elections to the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic and estimated them as open and democratic. He stressed
that all the aforementioned gives basis to state that international
organizations and individual statesmen do not have any moral right
to require from Nagorno-Karabakh Republic concessions to Azerbaijan.
“Nagorny Karabakh, the democracy standard bearer in the region cannot
cooperate with an anti-democratic country, all the more to become
its part”, Mnatsakanian stressed.