IPA CIS Representatives Took Part in Conference of Independent International Observers

Today in Moscow, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation held a Conference of independent international observers on the topic: “The role and prospects of international observation in the context of globalization, external pressure and information wars”.

The topics of discussion included foreign interference in elections, observance of citizens’ electoral rights, ensuring the rule of law, exerting political pressure on international observers at the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, and organizing international observation of the presidential elections of the Russian Federation.

The event was opened by Deputy Secretary of the Civic Chamber of Russia Alexander Shkolnik.

Deputy Head of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat – Director of the International Institute for Monitoring the Democracy Development, Parliamentarianism and Suffrage Protection of Citizens of IPA CIS Member Nations (IPA CIS IIMDD), Doctor of Law, Professor Ivan Mushket spoke at the conference. He thanked all international observers for the high quality of work and courage shown in monitoring the election of the President of the Russian Federation.

Ivan Mushket proposed to include in the resolution of the conference a provision that international observers in carrying out their activities should be guided by both the United Nations Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and the Convention on the Standards of Democratic Elections, Electoral Rights and Freedoms in the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States as a fundamental international legal act that regulates the principles of international election observation.

The conference was attended by current and former members of national and local parliaments, professors and experts from the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Republic of Poland, the United States of America, Georgia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of India, the Republic of Serbia, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Republic of South Africa, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Brazil, who took part in the observation of the presidential election in the Russian Federation.