March 7, 2010
Counting and Sorting operations for the elections will be held next Thursday abroad
OHCHR: broad international attention to monitor the electoral process
اربيل - باور حميد Irbil - H. Bauer
Confirmed the Electoral Commission for elections and there is broad international attention to monitor the electoral process taking place on Sunday, and revealed that the processes of counting and sorting out elections will be held next Thursday.
This came at a symposium held Friday in the Office of the city of Arbil international observers who are in Iraq to participate in monitoring elections.
According to UNHCR officials, this symposium was to inform the international observers on the actions taken by the Commission in preparation for the elections, and laws that work and fabricated UNHCR as well as security measures and operations of counting and sorting.
In a speech at the seminar said Mohammed Salman, Deputy Head of the Council of the Electoral Commission for elections, the importance of participation of international observers in the elections.
He added: This participation by international observers express the great interest of the international community represented by Arab and Islamic states and the European Union elections, as well as the continued presence of the United Nations.
For her part, Tara Abdullah Election Commission responsible agency in the province of Kurdistan, Iraq: Hundreds of international observers and representatives of the diplomatic corps and arrived in the country to monitor the Iraqi elections.
She said during the seminar that the number of international organizations registered in Baghdad at 29 organizations and a number of international observers from these bodies 574 international observers.
And followed her, saying that the total number of Hiyat diplomacy over Iraq up to 38 bodies of the Organization and the diplomatic and the number of international observers on the level of Iraq 626 international observers.
To that, "said Saad Al-Abdali director of operations for elections abroad during the seminar that the elections, which include Iraqis living outside the country saw a large turnout by the Iraqi citizens.
He pointed to the existence of a large turnout of citizens to the polling stations abroad, and said: "The signs are positive, there is a large turnout by the electorate to vote the door open to observers and agents of political entities, we now have 164 international observers will monitor the elections outside Iraq, and 373 local observers and 4174 as an agent for political entities.
He also said Saad Al-Abdali, head of operations abroad, said the election of counting and sorting out elections will be held in ten atheist than a month this March.
He said: I will give orders to begin counting and sorting in the 11 March in order to be counted and the counting of the votes and then send this data to the head office in Baghdad that includes the voices of Iraqis at home.
The Independent Higher Commission for Elections in Iraq have been developed in Erbil on behalf of the Directorate of the Directorate of elections abroad under the auspices of the Commission consisting of three members of the Commission, to supervise the elections that take place outside the country and will last for three days.
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