UCCA officially registers delegation of international election observers (03/19/06)

UCCA officially registers delegation of international election observers

by Tamara Gallo Olexy
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

NEW YORK - As of March 7, Ukraine's Central Election Commission has officially registered 130 international election observers from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections, with dozens more still awaiting accreditation.

The UCCA expects to have over 200 international observers scattered throughout Ukraine on election day. Following two days of intensive briefing sessions on March 23-24 in Kyiv, the UCCA observers will be dispatched to Crimea, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Poltava, Chekasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, Rivne, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr and Kyiv to monitor Ukraine's parliamentary election process.

UCCA observers will also be monitoring the elections in four out of five U.S. polling stations, including: New York City, Washington, Chicago, Illinois and Kent, Wash. The UCCA National Office, located in New York City, held a pre-election briefing on Monday, March 13, for those observers monitoring the elections state-side and for observers interested in obtaining more detailed information regarding Ukraine's election process.

The UCCA delegation of international election observers will assist in the upcoming parliamentary elections by ensuring that they are conducted in a free and fair manner.

The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has been organizing delegations of international election observers since 1994. In 2004 the UCCA's delegation, which numbered 2,408 individuals, was the largest delegation of international election observers ever registered by Ukraine's Central Election Commission.

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