Interesting read concerning tomorrow's presidential elections in Ukraine.
OSCE's Tana de Zulueta, who leads largest-ever election observation mission, talks about Ukraine's May 25 presidential vote
May 23, 2014, 4:50 p.m. | Ukraine — by William Schreiber
When Ukrainians go to the polls this Sunday, an unprecedented number of international observers will monitor the vote.
It will be the largest observation mission anywhere in the history of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, an arm of the 57-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Some 1,250 people comprise the May 25 observation mission of Ukraine’s presidential election, including 100 long-term observers and just fewer than 900 short-term observers.
In a May 23 interview with Kyiv Post, Tana de Zulueta, a former Italian parliamentarian who heads the mission, described the observers as a diverse bunch by nationality, with notably large contingents coming from Canada, the United States and the European Union. There will, however, be one country with a notable absence from Sunday’s mission.
“There are no long-term or short-term Russian observers on this mission. That was the choice of the Russian Federation. The mission was organized at the height of the Crimea crisis,” said de Zulueta, “It will be the first time that an election is observed by ODIHR without Russian observers.”
Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/osces-tana-de-zulueta-who-leads-largest-ever-election-observation-mission-talks-about-ukraines-may-25-presidential-vote-349040.html
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