Country Election Observation Form

Instructions and help about Country Election Observation

[Music] since its first election observation mission to Russia in 1993 the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has deployed thousands of parliamentarians as election observers across the OSCE area covering North America Europe North Africa and Central Asia the main objective of election observation is to hold OSCE countries accountable to the election related standards they have committed to it is also an important exercise in bridging differences and building trust both within countries and between countries observers assess elections for their compliance from a set of commitments agreed to in 1990 in the OSCE Copenhagen document governments agreed on a framework for the conduct of democratic free and fair elections in recognition of the important role that international observation can play in electoral processes the participants agreed to welcome representatives of other OSCE countries to observe their national actions observers pay close attention to whether there is a clear separation of