“The boycott of election monitoring in Azerbaijan is the last obvious example of the ODIHR’s biased position and unwillingness to engage in dialogue. The ODIHR refused to observe the election in Azerbaijani side as the country offered the organizations to send fewer observes,” the envoy noted
Lukashevich went on to add that the Bureau that is a part of the OSCE executive structures is operation as an autonomous organization and such activities of the ODIHR raise questions.
For comparison, over the last three years, the ODIHR has sent 7,000 observers to CIS countries and over 200 observers to the EU member states, the envoy stressed.
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