Azernews.Az

By Aynur Jafarova

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will consider observation of upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan at its next meeting, the official website of PACE reported.

The meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 2, will also discuss observation of October 27 presidential elections in Georgia.

PACE will send a delegation consisting of 32 experts to observe the presidential elections in Azerbaijan.

The delegation will stay in the country from October 7 to 10.

According to PACE report, a delegation consisting of seven experts will stay in Baku on September 10 - 13 which will conduct monitoring of pre - election condition in Azerbaijan.

This delegation will hold a press conference on September 13.

After concluding the observation of the elections, PACE will adopt a final report on the presidential elections.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry reported on August 15 that Azerbaijan has invited international organizations to observe the October 9 elections.

The CEC expects that a significant number of people will observe the elections this time and they are not required to obtain permission from anyone to do so.

This year missions from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), GUAM and other international organizations will observe the presidential elections in Azerbaijan.

The presidential elections in Azerbaijan will be held on October 9.

According to the Constitution, the president of Azerbaijan is elected for a five-year term through general, direct and equal elections, by free, private and secret voting.

Azerbaijani citizens who have the right of election, initiative groups of electors, political parties and blocs of political parties are entitled to nominating candidates.