Ulaanbaatar
OSCE/ODIHR proposes Mongolia to invite observers during forthcoming elections
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The General Election Commission (GEC) reported Monday that an election observation mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has worked in Mongolia with an objective to get familiar with a legal landscape of the parliamentary elections of Mongolia, pre-election situation and preparations, and to issue proposals and recommendations for deploying observers.
While working in Ulaanbaatar, the ODIHR mission has met with authorities of some Standing committees of the State Great Khural, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the General Election Commission (GEC), the General Authority of Civil Registration and Statistics, the National Commission for Human Rights, political parties, media, civil society and research institutions.
After summing up works performed, the ODIHR mission proposed Mongolia to deploy 322 long- and short-term observers to be selected from OSCE countries for the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
