Posted on 09/10/2003 7:12:07 AM PDT by RussianConservative
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will send 400 observers to monitor Georgia's parliamentary elections this fall, the observation mission's chief said Tuesday.
"The forthcoming elections are crucial for the future democratic development of Georgia," said Julian Peel Yates, who will lead the group's mission to monitor the Nov. 2 vote.
He said the OSCE mission would report its conclusions a day after the vote.
Earlier this month, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze appointed a human rights activist whose candidacy had been suggested by the OSCE to head the Central Elections Commission.
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