Both the OSCE and CIS observers won’t attend Crimea occupied by Russia to monitor the elections to the State Duma.
The CEC member Vasiliy Likhachev informed about the refusal of the CIS executive committee to monitor the elections to the State Duma in Crimea, Kommersant reports.
“As for the CIS mission, the conversation showed that the representatives of different countries has a position to not attend Crimea on the basis of foreign directives of their countries,” he explained.
According to him, Ukraine sent a letter to the CISexecutive committeewith a request not to send observers to Crimea. The group of observers from the CIS executive committee includes about 200 people from different countries of the former Soviet Union – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova (about 200 observers in total).
“They don’t have a common position concerning their activities in Crimea,” Vasiliy Likhachev said and added that it wouldn’t allow the CIS group to work on the peninsula.
As a reminder, the OSCE is not going to send its observers tothe Russian parliamentary elections in occupied Crimea and won’t recognize the legitimacy of the State Duma deputieselected from the peninsula.
