EPDE meets with ODIHR Director Lenarcic in Warsaw

Warsaw, 17 June 2013: EPDE members Lilia Shibanova, GOLOS, Ewa Kulik, Stefan Batory Foundation, Stefanie Schiffer, EA and Vladimir Labkovich, HR Centre Viasna met in Warsaw for the presentation of EPDE with ODIHR director Janez Lenarcic and staff members of ODIHR's election and human rights departments. EPDE and ODIHR agreed to develop various forms of cooperation between ODIHR's international election observation missions and civic election observation as conducted by EPDE members. The participants agreed that EPDE's civic election observation is an important complementation to international election observation missions and that regular exchange of opinions, informations and reports between the intergovernmental and the civic observation structures will be established.