Establishing an office in Yerevan, the CIS observation mission proceeded to monitoring of the forthcoming presidential elections.
Mission head Vladimir Gorkun said that the group includes 5 members at the moment but some 150-170 observers will arrive on the eve of the presidential election.
“We arrived on invitation of the Armenian Foreign Minister. The mission will function independently throughout the republic,” he said.
9 candidates will run for president on February 19. The election campaign kicked off on January 21.
