Presidential election 2015 in Belarus

MINSK, 3 September (BelTA) – The mission sent by the Commonwealth of Independent States to monitor the Belarus president election and the Supreme Court of Belarus have reached an agreement on cooperation, the Court’s press service told BelTA.

Top officials of the CIS observation mission and the Supreme Court met in Minsk on 3 September as part of the election monitoring process. The CIS observers were made familiar with the peculiarities involved in the processing of complaints and petitions submitted to Belarusian courts in the run-up to the election and the role of the court system in the election process.

It was noted that court sessions, which look into complaints concerning elections, are always open to the public. This is why observers are allowed to attend such sessions.

In turn, representatives of the CIS election observation mission emphasized that observers try not to interfere with domestic affairs of the observed country and its political processes. They stressed that the main purpose of the election monitoring process was to verify the observation of election laws during an election campaign.

During the meeting on 3 April the CIS election observation mission was represented by First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir Garkun, deputy department director of the CIS Executive Committee Amonzhan Eshonkulov, department head of the CIS Executive Committee and chief of staff of the CIS observation mission during the Belarus president election Yevgeny Sloboda.

The Supreme Court of Belarus was represented by First Deputy Presiding Judge of the Supreme Court Valery Kalinkovich and Deputy Presiding Judge of the Supreme Court, Chairman of the Civil Division Andrei Zabara.