Posted on 12/13/2005 9:33:22 AM PST by Mazepa
Ukraine abstains from inviting the CIS Watchdog Mission for observing the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 2006. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Vassyl Fylypchuk claimed this to a news conference today.
He stressed that the unilateral political orientation of the CIS Mission leadership in the course of observing the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004 resulted in a biased and ideologized approach and gave distorted, far from objective, conclusions. This caused principal differences between conclusions of watchdog missions from CIS and other international organizations, and proved the necessity of a significant revising of principles and organizational bases of its activities.
V.Fylypchuk noted that the above-mentioned facts forced President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko to suspend Ukraine’s participating in the activities of the Mission until its cardinal reforming. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry officially informed the CIS Executive Committee on this.
I guess this means they dont want Jimmah Cartuh over there either.
They don't need election observers. They're not some corrupt backwater like the USA, after all.
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