Presidential election 2015 in Belarus
OSCE long-term election observation mission in Belarus starts 26 August
MINSK, 21 August (BelTA) – OSCE long-term election observers will start their mission in Belarus on 26 August, BelTA learnt from Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Lidia Yermoshina.
The CEC head did not name the number of observers that would be deployed to Minsk next week as accreditation certificates have not been distributed yet.
As was informed, the Belarusian presidential election will be monitored by about 40 long-term and nearly 400 short-term observers from the OSCE.
Apart from that, CIS will deploy about 40 long-term observers to monitor the presidential election in the country. It is planned that there will be around 400 short-term observers from the CIS, including representatives of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, MPs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State, the State Duma, representatives of the Council of the Federation as well as the CIS member states.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has also voiced its intention to monitor the country’s presidential election scheduled for 11 October 2015.
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