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Foreign Diplomats Call for Free Elections

The Ambassadorial Working Group on the 2008 presidential election in Georgia has called on all sides “to ensure the conduct of free and fair elections as well as an environment free of intimidation, where Georgian citizens can fully exercise their constitutional right to vote.”


The Tbilisi-based Ambassadorial Working Group is co-chaired by the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the United Nations; and comprises representatives of the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the European Union and OSCE Participating States accredited in Georgia.


“Reaffirming support for the work of international election observation missions, they also stressed the importance for all political actors to demonstrate full commitment to international electoral standards by duly taking into account the findings and recommendations of those missions,” the group said in a statement released on December 31.

The OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission said in its second interim report that the presidential election campaign environment “has been soured” by allegations of the misuse of administrative resources by incumbent candidate Mikheil Saakashvili, unequal campaign conditions, intimidation and vote buying,


“The OSCE/ODIHR EOM has received information and first-hand accounts, which indicate that some of these claims are credible,” it said in the report covering the period between December 14 and December 24.


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