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A center established in Baku for watching the US elections

05 November 2008 10:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova-APA. US Embassy in Azerbaijan established a special center in Baku for watching the US elections at 06.00-11.00 on November 5, APA reports. The voting and counting processes were seen on the two large monitors installed at the center. The visitors can see the results of voting in the map drawn for watching the elections in every state of the country.
US citizens in Azerbaijan, representatives of diplomatic corpse in Baku, members of Azerbaijani parliament, leaders of political parties and NGOs, as well as political scientists and journalists watched the elections at the center. Chief of the embassyâ€™s Public Relations department Terry Davidson told journalists that these elections arouse interests among the young voters especially and record turnout was observed during the voting. â€œEstablishing this center in Baku we aimed to share our happiness and values with Azerbaijani people. We saw Senator McCain to announce his position and to concede defeat. The elections were very constrained, but despite that Senator McCain followed the American traditions and called his voters to support the winner. As an American we are proud that the candidate prefers national interests than personal ones and calls all the voters to be united for the development of the countryâ€.
US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse announced that the people made its choice and Democrat candidate Barack Obama was elected the president. The diplomat congratulated the American people on its choice.