Russian Central Elections Commission to monitor Kazakh presidential election

MOSCOW. February 9. KAZINFORM. The Russian Central Elections Commission has been officially invited to monitor the early presidential election in Kazakhstan due this April, Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov said on Tuesday.

He said in reply to an Itar-Tass question that the invitation had been sent by the Kazakh Central Elections Commission, as the entities had a cooperation agreement stipulating the exchange of international election observers.

Churov said that the monitoring group would be formed later, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.

Meanwhile, Central Elections Commission member Yelena Dubrovina will be an observer in the parliamentary election in Uganda. "We are also preparing for the Estonian election, which is of special interest because new technologies will be used. Mobile phones will be used extensively in that ballot," Churov said.

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