Azerbaijan, Baku, 18 August / Trend corr.E.Aliyev / Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry invited international organizations to watchdog the upcoming presidential elections.
"The invited organizations are OSCE, PACE, GUAM and CIS. OSCE and PACE have already defined their observers," Khazar Ibrahim, a spokesperson in the Foreign Ministry, said to journalists on 18 August.
Azerbaijan will host the presidential elections in autumn 2008. The Central Election Commission (CEC) has already registered 15 candidates.
"OSCE will send 30 long standing and 450 short standing observers headed by Boris Firlish, Slovenian diplomat. OSCE's mission arrives in Baku on 7 September," Ibrahim said. PACE is expected to send 30 observers headed by Andreas Herkel.
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