Traduction de «observateur de tour » (Français → Anglais) :

The European Union is pleased to note that the first round of the Presidential elections in Guinea Bissau was considered by international observers, in particular the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM), to have been peaceful and generally well administered in line with essential international principles for democratic elections.

The solution is to re-stage the second round of the elections with the close involvement of international observers, ensuring that this third round takes place under circumstances that are totally different from those under which the first and second rounds were held, a situation in which democratic standards are, of course, respected under the close observation of the international community.

4. Calls on the Ukrainian authorities to annul the second round of the presidential elections and reorganise this second round before the end of this year with the participation of international observers, whilst guaranteeing an open and transparent electoral process in accordance with international democratic standards during both the election campaign and the actual voting and counting of votes, and thoroughly improving the election campaign conditions;

That, in the opinion of this House, the government should impress upon the Government of Ukraine to ensure a fully transparent election process by: (a) providing free access for Ukrainian and international election observers, multiparty representation on all election commissions, unimpeded access by all parties and candidates to the media, freedom of candidates and media from intimidation and/or harassment, and a transparent process for complaint and appeals through electoral commissions and the courts; (b) guaranteeing election moni ...[+++]tors from the Office of the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, other participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ukrainian political parties, candidates' representatives, non-governmental organizations, and other private institutions and organizations, both foreign and domestic; and (c) providing unobstructed access to all aspects of the election process for the Ukrainian presidential election of October 31, 2004 and a potential second round election on November 21, 2004.

B. whereas these irregularities, confirmed by various Peruvian and international independent bodies, and the refusal of the authorities to postpone the date of the second ballot in order to solve problems in the counting system and provide minimum guarantees for the elections - as requested both by the OAS mission and the international observers and by the Peruvian Ombudsman, the Peruvian electoral observers’ institutions and the democratic opposition parties – have led to one of the candidates not taking part in the second round of the elections and the withdrawal of the OAS electoral observers’ mission and all the electoral observers ...[+++]and spokespeople,

The European Union is grateful to the Dominican authorities for their invitation to make available a mission of observers on the occasion of the first round of the presidential elections on Thursday 16 May.