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CIS election monitoring chief arrives in Tajikistan

Xinhua, February 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

CIS election monitoring chief Sergey Lebedev arrived in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, on Thursday evening as the country is to hold a parliamentary election on March 1.

Lebedev, head of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the CIS Election Monitoring Mission, will meet Shermuhammad Shohiyon, head of Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), the commission said on Friday.

Lebedev is also expected to visit a number of constituencies in Dushanbe and high-ranking Tajik government officials.

The CCER said it completed on Monday the process of registration of international election observers to Tajikistan's lower house of parliament.

A total of 525 international observers, including 175 representatives from CIS countries and 167 from the OSCE and other international organizations, will monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tajikistan. Endi