BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
16/07/2008
Belarus' Chief Election Official Barred From Intl Forum
MINSK. July 16 (Interfax) - The head of Belarus' Central Election Commission said she would be unable to attend a planned international conference in Vienna on July 21-22 on election monitoring as she is one of the senior Belarusian officials who has been denied the right of entry to European Union countries.
The head of the commission's legal department, Nadezhda Kiselyova, will represent Belarus at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference, commission head Lidia Yermoshina said.
"Logically, it is me who should take part in conferences of this kind, but this is impossible for a well-known reason - because I cannot enter Austria," Yermoshina said.
Yermoshina also said OSCE observers are due to arrive in Belarus next month.
The Belarusian Central Election Commission has also invited the central election commissions of other member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States,
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