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Baku official says Armenian may bid to be registered as candidate in
Azerbaijan's presidential elections
[image: Baku official says Armenian may bid to be registered as candidate
in Azerbaijan's presidential elections]
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Baku-born Grigori Ayvazyan, who currently heads the Azerbaijani
Armenians' Assembly in Yerevan, will be granted the right to stand for
president in Azerbaijan if he proves his citizenship of the country and
produces other required documents, an election body representative in Baku
said on Thursday.
Last week Ayvazyan revealed his plans to participate in the upcoming
presidential elections in Azerbaijan, with which Armenia warred in the
early 1990s and is now locked in a bitter dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ayvazyan, whose organization advances the interests of refugees from
Azerbaijan, said that Azerbaijani Armenians had nominated his candidacy and
that he was ready to accept their will. He also argued that if given an
opportunity and provided with security guarantees he would sweep the
elections in Azerbaijan with 60 percent of the vote.
`But if I am not registered as a candidate, Azerbaijan will once again
prove that it is a fascist state,' Ayvazyan said at a press conference in
Yerevan on May 17.
Azer Saryev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission, told
1news.az yesterday that Ayvazyan may pass
registrationfor
participation in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan if the
process of submission of documents by him is executed correctly, in
accordance with relevant legislative norms.
Presidential elections are due in Azerbaijan in October. The country's
incumbent autocratic president Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his late father
Heydar Aliyev as head of state in 2003, will run for a third successive term
inoffice
and in conditions of an oppressed opposition and stifled dissent is
expected to win the ballot by a large margin.
http://armenianow.com/news/46399/armenia_azerbaijan_candidate_elections_grigori_ayv azyan_cec
From: Baghdasarian
Baku official says Armenian may bid to be registered as candidate in
Azerbaijan's presidential elections
[image: Baku official says Armenian may bid to be registered as candidate
in Azerbaijan's presidential elections]
Photolure
Baku-born Grigori Ayvazyan, who currently heads the Azerbaijani
Armenians' Assembly in Yerevan, will be granted the right to stand for
president in Azerbaijan if he proves his citizenship of the country and
produces other required documents, an election body representative in Baku
said on Thursday.
Last week Ayvazyan revealed his plans to participate in the upcoming
presidential elections in Azerbaijan, with which Armenia warred in the
early 1990s and is now locked in a bitter dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ayvazyan, whose organization advances the interests of refugees from
Azerbaijan, said that Azerbaijani Armenians had nominated his candidacy and
that he was ready to accept their will. He also argued that if given an
opportunity and provided with security guarantees he would sweep the
elections in Azerbaijan with 60 percent of the vote.
`But if I am not registered as a candidate, Azerbaijan will once again
prove that it is a fascist state,' Ayvazyan said at a press conference in
Yerevan on May 17.
Azer Saryev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission, told
1news.az yesterday that Ayvazyan may pass
registrationfor
participation in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan if the
process of submission of documents by him is executed correctly, in
accordance with relevant legislative norms.
Presidential elections are due in Azerbaijan in October. The country's
incumbent autocratic president Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his late father
Heydar Aliyev as head of state in 2003, will run for a third successive term
inoffice
and in conditions of an oppressed opposition and stifled dissent is
expected to win the ballot by a large margin.
http://armenianow.com/news/46399/armenia_azerbaijan_candidate_elections_grigori_ayv azyan_cec
From: Baghdasarian