– this is how in­ter­na­tio­nal ob­servers cha­racte­ri­se the pre­si­den­tial electi­on in Turk­me­nis­tan on March 12

Ak­mal­jon KUCHKA­ROV,
the He­ad of the Ob­server Mis­sion from the Shang­hai Coo­pe­ra­tion Or­ga­ni­sa­tion, Am­bas­sa­dor Extraor­di­na­ry and Ple­ni­po­ten­tia­ry of the Re­pub­lic of Uz­be­kis­tan to Turk­me­nis­tan: