Canada to Send 500 Observers to Monitor Ukraine Election

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Canada has vowed to send up to 500 observers to Ukraine to help monitor the fairness of upcoming presidential election in the country. The May 24, 2014, election have a special significance since Russia is persistently trying to destabilize Ukraine after singly annexing its Black Sea peninsula this spring.

Former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by a popular uprising in March and since have fled to Russia. Yanukovych received sheer criticism for drawing from a deal to have closer ties with the European Union, instead he accepted a major bailout package from Russia. Since the decision, Russia has seized Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and is now backing pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to push for independence. While announcing the initiative, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that “Canada will continue to help ensure that Ukrainians are free to exercise their sovereign rights and to choose a leader, free from coercion or intimidation.”

The Canadian election observer mission will include up to 338 observers, 150 observers operating through the Organization for Security Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Election Observation Mission and 12 parliamentarians who will join the Organization for Security Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Election Observation Mission. In his statement, Mr. Harper alleged that “the measures announced today will help ensure that the upcoming Ukrainian elections are free and fair and that democracy and governance are the cornerstones of the new government.”

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