Valentina Matvienko and Ogtay Asadov welcomed the participants of the seminar in Baku

Valentina Matvienko IPA CIS Council Chairperson Now a traditional event, IPA CIS seminars on relevant issues of election laws and their enforcement play an important role in building cooperation in this sphere. Legislators, heads of national election authorities, experts and civil society leaders participating in the seminars benefit from the opportunity to share views on strategies to develop electoral regulatory framework and tactics of their engagement into real political life, as well as learn from the best practices in this field.

Ogtay Asadov Speaker of Milli Mejlis CIS Member Nations have a common ground in the ongoing pursuit of overall development of legal framework regulating electoral process by taking stock of international and regional practices. In this regard, I want to commend the role of the IPA CIS in supporting a free exchange of national expertise and practices of electoral process and building a matrix for national election laws.