62 local and 130 foreign journalists received accreditation in CEC

Foreign media organs and their representatives intending to observe the elections are the followings: “BBC (Moscow representation) – 5 persons, “CBS News” TV-company of USA – 6 persons, ARD TV of Germany – 19 persons, “Al-Jazeera” TV – 5 persons, “CBC” Canada State Television – 3 persons, “TBS” TV and Radio company of Japan – 4 persons, Moscow bureau of “Eurovision” – 5 persons, “Dubai” TV – 1 person, TRT (Baku representation) – 6 persons, Channel 5 (Ukraine) – 2 persons, First channel (Russia) – 11 persons, All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company – 7 persons, “Khabar” TV of Kazakhstan – 1 person, Public Television of Georgia – 2 persons, “RFI” International French Radio – 1 person, Reuters – 18 persons, Anadolu Agency (Turkey) – 1 person, Ihlas Haber Agency (Turkey) – 4 persons, ITAR-TASS – 5 persons, “GPD” Press Association of Netherlands – 1 person, Associated Press – 8 persons, Inter (Ukraine) – 2 persons, “New York Times” paper (USA) – 5 persons, “The Daily Telegraph” paper (Great Britain) – 1 person, “China Youth Daily” paper (China) – 1 person, “El-Pais” paper (Spain) – 1 person, “DIE WELT” paper (Germany) – 1 person, “NRC Handelsblad” paper (Holland) – 1 person, “Azerros” paper (Russia) – 2 persons, “Oqonyok” paper – 1 person.

In spite of the great interest of the foreign media to the elections, representatives of the Azerbaijani press do not show such a serious interest in observing the elections. Only 62 journalists from 15 local mass media organs have appealed to CEC so far.

APA