Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Elnur Mammadov met Tuesday with representatives of the Needs Assessment Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Martina Barker-Ciganikova and Goran Petrov.
The discussions revolved around the preparation process for the upcoming snap presidential elections in Azerbaijan scheduled for February 7 next year, as well as the international obligations in this regard.
Deputy FM Mammadov informed the OSCE representatives about Azerbaijan’s consistent, systematic and intensive steps to ensure the free, fair and transparent conduct of the upcoming elections, as well as the measures to facilitate participation of international observers in the elections and ensure the voting right of Azerbaijani citizens living abroad or temporally staying in foreign countries.
