The Vice-Chair of the OSCE CS Ms.Irene Charalambidou, the Assembly's Special Representative for Civil Society Participation Mr.Kyriakos Hatzigiannis and Mr. Christos Senekis, depart for Turkey
The Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), Ms Irini Charalambidou, the Assembly's Special Representative for Civil Society Participation, Mr. Kyriakos Hatzigiannis and Mr. Christos Senekis, members of the Cypriot delegation to the OSCE CSO, will leave tomorrow for Turkey to participate in an OSCE CSO observation mission to monitor the general elections in Turkey on 14 May 2023. OSCE mission will include more than 100 parliamentarians from OSCE participating States, who will be deployed to Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir and other cities to verify that the electoral process complies with the criteria set out in the OSCE Copenhagen Document (1990).
The participants in the mission will, inter alia, have separate meetings with representatives of the country's electoral authorities, political parties, the media and civil society. They will also have an information meeting with representatives of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) long-term election observation mission to Turkey.
The main issues to be addressed by the participants of the CS mission will be.
On election day, the Cypriot parliamentarians will be in Istanbul, where they will visit polling stations to observe the electoral process on the ground.
Moreover, during their stay in Istanbul, the members of the Cypriot delegation will be received by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Phanar.
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