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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is going to send about 1,000 observers to Ukraine’s second round of presidential elections that is to be re-voted on December 26.
Five hundred observers will be from Canada.
The Ukrainian community in Canada is seized about one million.
Its representatives demanded that Canadian authorities increased the number of observers to 1,500, but even sending 500 will cost Canada almost three million dollars.
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he US will send 60 observers with the OSCE mission. The US has issued to the OSCE and several other organizations three million dollars for their monitoring functions.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said his country would send about 100 observers to Ukraine’s presidential elections.
Britain will dispatch120 observers.
The Ukrainian opposition has asked the OSCE to increase the number of its observers to 2,000. However, OSCE spokesperson Richard Murphy said a few days ago that the organization would have difficulty gathering this number in the short period remaining to the elections.
In the opinion of the chief of the OSCE Bureau of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Christian Strochal, an optimal decision would be to increase the number of observers from 600 to 1,000.
PARIS, December 9 (Itar-Tass)
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