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ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL ARRIVES IN GUYANA
ON OAS ELECTORAL OBSERVATION MISSION

  August 22, 2006

Ambassador Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), arrives in Guyana today to head up the OAS Electoral Observation Mission that will monitor the country’s August 28 general and regional elections.

The hemispheric organization is observing the election at the invitation of the Guyana government, which made a formal request earlier this year. The OAS is observing the process leading up to and immediately following the vote, and will report its findings of how it viewed the entire electoral process.

The mission being led by Ambassador Ramdin will comprise some 60 international election observers, who will cover Guyana’s 10 administrative regions. The OAS election monitors have begun arriving in the country. They will join a two-member, long-term technical mission – made up of Eugene Petty, of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anne Fudge, of Canada – that has been in Guyana since May.

During previous visits to Guyana, the OAS Assistant Secretary General met with a wide cross-section of interests, including government leaders and electoral authorities, as well as representatives of political parties, local electoral observer groups, the private sector and the international community.

Reference: AVI-073/06