Kyiv, September 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is going soon to send a delegation to Ukraine to prepare presidential election monitoring.
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights in Warsaw told Deutsche Welle on September 4 that the OSCE
hopes to send its mission to Kyiv in September, which is to study the
needs for the organization of presidential election monitoring.
Thomas Rymer Acting Spokesperson said that the OSCE have not received an official invitation from Ukraine to send its monitors.
“The thing is that before we go there, we should receive an invitation,” the spokesperson said.
He said that the OSCE plans to send around a couple
of dozens of long-term monitors in November-December 2009. Short-term
monitors would start arriving to the country before the election. It is
unknown who would head the OSCE mission.
