OSCE/ODIHR may not send Needs Assessment Mission to Belarus ahead of parliamentary elections

Photo: Lidia Yermoshina (www.rec.gov.by)

The OSCE/ODIHR may not send its Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) to Belarus in the run-up to the parliamentary elections, BelTA quotes Chairperson of the Belarusian Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina.

“They are not planning to send their technical mission as the previous elections took place in Belarus less than a year ago. It is possible that the long-term mission will be deployed later than usual because the OSCE/ODIHR is well familiar with the situation in the country,” Lidia Yermoshina noted.

She also informed that the CEC has already registered six national and nine international observers.