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| Forty EU election observers to arrive today A further forty Election Observers from the European Union will arrive tomorrow in Colombo. Twenty-seven of their colleagues have already been deployed in all electoral districts since the first week of March. This advance team have already had many meetings with Political parties, Returning Officers and their staff, and Society groups, Police and Representative of the Media, commenting on the arrival of the remainder of his team the EU Chief Observer John Cushnahan said: "The arrival of these forty Observers brings our team up to its full strength. We will now have 70 team members coming from thirteen of the 15 member states of the European Union. They are a vastly experienced team. In total they have participated in approximately 1,000 Election Observation exercises. Following an intensive briefing by our Core Team, the forty short-term observers (STOs) will be deployed throughout Sri Lanka in teams of two to monitor the opening of polling stations, the voting process, the counting of ballots, and the tabulation of votes at local and national level. Following the completion of the count, they will rejoin the rest of the team at the EUEOM Headquarters for debriefing on 3rd April 2004 prior to the publication of the EU statement on the 2004 Election process". |
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