Visit “predèlektoral′noj” missions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (pace) to monitor the forthcoming elections of the President of Russia to Moscow between 8-12 February, is part of an official invitation to speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkina and in accordance with the rules of the PACE, 9 February at the briefing said the official Russian Foreign Ministry representative Alyaksandr Lukashevich. As reported by Lukashevich, pre-election PACE mission-five members representing five political groups (factions). Total size of the PACE monitoring mission for the presidential elections in Russia to address PACE is 30 people. Lead the mission will be a Dutch Senator t. Cox, who recently led a mission of PACE observation mission to the State Duma December 4, 2011 year.
“I would like to stress that, in accordance with the provisions of the Document of the Copenhagen meeting on the human dimension of the CSCE 1990, laid the basic principles for the conduct and supervision of elections, international monitoring organization we are guided primarily by Russian electoral law. We believe that the practice of the presence of foreign observers at elections contributed to democratic processes in States where elections are held, and contributes to the development of inter-parliamentary cooperation. As we understand it, the Observer Mission of the OSCE and PACE will again, as in the Duma elections, the joint. We hope that the assessment of international observers will be objective, impartial and non-politicized manner “, he said.
