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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇹🇯 Has OSCE run out of money?
On Tuesday, February 4, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) issued a statement in which it refused to observe the elections in Tajikistan.
ODIHR has already refused to observe elections in Russia and Belarus on the pretext of late invitations or restrictions on the number of observers from the host country.
However, this time in Tajikistan, they had already started deploying their mission. On January 22, an ODIHR expert group was stationed in Dushanbe.
This time, the pretext for refusal was the accreditation procedure: according to ODIHR, the Tajik authorities should have immediately accredited their observers.
📌 Coincidentally, the refusal to observe the elections coincided with the suspension of foreign project financing and USAID activities (which affected many NGOs in Tajikistan itself).
🔻ODIHR planned to send 20 people for a month and 150 observers about a week before the March 2 elections. All of them needed to be paid for their work, meals, accommodation, fees and other expenses.
And the suspension of the flow of American money had a critical impact on the organization of the observers' activities, while European bureaucracy could not quickly allocate funds.
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In this amusing way, accusing Tajikistan, OSCE is covering up its own failures.
#elections #EU #CentralAsia #Tajikistan
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On Tuesday, February 4, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) issued a statement in which it refused to observe the elections in Tajikistan.
ODIHR has already refused to observe elections in Russia and Belarus on the pretext of late invitations or restrictions on the number of observers from the host country.
However, this time in Tajikistan, they had already started deploying their mission. On January 22, an ODIHR expert group was stationed in Dushanbe.
This time, the pretext for refusal was the accreditation procedure: according to ODIHR, the Tajik authorities should have immediately accredited their observers.
📌 Coincidentally, the refusal to observe the elections coincided with the suspension of foreign project financing and USAID activities (which affected many NGOs in Tajikistan itself).
🔻ODIHR planned to send 20 people for a month and 150 observers about a week before the March 2 elections. All of them needed to be paid for their work, meals, accommodation, fees and other expenses.
And the suspension of the flow of American money had a critical impact on the organization of the observers' activities, while European bureaucracy could not quickly allocate funds.
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In this amusing way, accusing Tajikistan, OSCE is covering up its own failures.
#elections #EU #CentralAsia #Tajikistan
@rybar
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