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Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 13
By Seba Aghayeva - Trend:
OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has no ground to voice an opinion on the results of election in Azerbaijan, in case of non-participation in it as an observer, Hikmet Hajiyev, head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Trend Oct. 13.
He was commenting on a statement earlier made by the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier regarding the upcoming parliamentary election in Azerbaijan.
"Azerbaijan, complying with its commitments as part of OSCE, sent an invitation on July 14, 2015 to the OSCE/ODIHR for its observing the parliamentary election scheduled for Nov. 1, 2015," said Hajiyev.
"Azerbaijan also sent a reasoned response to the ODIHR with regard to that structure's report in connection with the points, with which Azerbaijan didn't agree."
"Thus, ODIHR's sending 400 observers to Azerbaijan, which has a population of 9.5 million and 125 constituencies, isn't logical," Hajiyev further noted.
He added that the ODIHR hasn't yet been able to give a logical explanation to the discrepancy between the number of observers and the number of population and voters.
"Instead, the OSCE/ODIHR management unilaterally, without consultations, and flagrantly violating mandate, decided that it won't observe the parliamentary election in Azerbaijan," said Hajiyev.