Rushailo to head CIS observers mission at election in Azerbaijan
By Larisa Klyuchnikova

ITAR-TASS News Agency
September 13, 2005 Tuesday 10:25 AM Eastern Time

MINSK, September 13 – Vladimir Rushailo, the executive secretary
of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), will head the CIS
observers mission at the parliamentary election in Azerbaijan in
November. A meeting of the Council of permanent representatives of
the CIS at bodies formed under the charter and other bodies of the
CIS made this decision in Minsk on Tuesday.

The mission’s centre will begin working in Azerbaijan on October 3-4,
Asan Kozhakov, the deputy chairman of the CIS executive committee,
told Itar-Tass. Kozhakov said Rushailo planned to visit Baku on
September 23 and to announce the opening there of the centre of the
observers mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the
invitation of the Azerbaijan Republic.

Kozhakov said real monitoring would take place – representatives of the
mission would work at all polling stations, would observe canvassing,
would analyze election laws and, after the voting, would sum up the
election results. Two members of the CIS, Ukraine and Armenia, will
not send their observers to Azerbaijan.