The members of the Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan Election Headquarters (ACSDA EH) continue meetings with international organizations related to the presidential elections - 2008. The head of the ACSDA EH Maharram Zulfugarli met with Den Blessington, the director of IFES on Azerbaijan and Shahla Mahmudova, the project coordinator in the IFES Baku office. Zulfugarli gave broad information about ACSDA’s activity on the sphere of civil society development, and the works realized by EH. He also talked about their meeting with IFES vice president James Vermillion, program manager Antony K. Boyer, and program coordinator Irina Zaslavskaya in IFES head office in Washington. He also informed the IFES officials about the election enlightenment, monitoring of the elections, exit poll and quick count operations to be realized by the ACSDA EH.
Den Blessington, in his turn, gave information about their plans related to the presidential election-2008, the new document prepared considering changes proposed to the Election Code and the book to be published soon. He stated that they are open to any cooperation related to election enlightenment and monitoring of the presidential elections. The sides reached agreement on regular information sharing and books exchange.
The ACSDA EH lawyers on international issues Irada Tagiyeva and Samira Mammadova also participated in the meeting.