Armenian Parliament Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with the members of the CSTO PA monitoring group. 

Welcoming the colleagues, the Speaker of the Parliament gave importance to the readiness of the organization to carry out an observation mission in Armenia, as well as assured that the elections are going to be free and transparent, complying not only with the RA legislation but also with international standards.

The head of the monitoring group,  Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, Defense and Security of the Kyrgyz Parliament Kanybek Imanaliev, said that they have already met with a number of political forces running in the elections. He reaffirmed his confidence in holding fair elections.

Yerman Mukhtar, the chairman of the Kazakh parliament’s committee on foreign affairs, defense, and security and a member of the monitoring group, expressed hope that a new page in Armenia's development will be opened as a result of snap parliamentary elections.

During the meeting, Ararat Mirzoyan referred to the situation after the November 9 trilateral statement and exchanged views on the agenda of the forthcoming sitting of the CSTO PA Council.