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PA OSCE 65-member mission to observe Armenian parliamentary election
07.05.2007 16:17 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Around 65 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
(OSCE PA) will serve as election observers at the 12 May parliamentary
election in Armenia.
As PanARMENIAN.Net came to klnow from the OSCE PA press office, headed
by Swedish Parliamentarian, Ms.Tone Tingsgaard, a Vice President of
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and an experienced election observer,
the 65 parliamentarians come from many of the 56 OSCE member States,
including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Poland, Norway, Denmark,
Germany, France, and Austria.
They will be part of a larger group of international election
observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and
the European Parliament as well as from OSCE?s Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has a long experience in election
monitoring. Since 1993, over 2,000 members of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly have participated as election observers in over 75 elections
over the entire OSCE region.
A formal statement from the international election observers will be
issued on Sunday, 13 May, the day after the election.