OSCE/ODIHR observers to start working in Minsk August 19

OSCE/ODIHR observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Belarus will start working on August 19, BelTA learnt from the OSCE Office in Minsk. Some 41 representatives of OSCE will arrive in Belarus to monitor the parliamentary elections. Some 300 short-term observers will arrive in the country on the eve of the election day to monitor the opening of polling stations and voting process. The main team and long-term observers will come to Belarus from 22 OSCE member states. The CIS observation mission has already started to work in Belarus. Before the elections start it will count more than 300 experts. Mission’s offices opened in all the regions of Belarus.