The state Duma with a high probability will not send observers to the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, which are required to be held on 26 October, said on Thursday the head of the lower house of Parliament on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Slutsky.
Answering the question Last news about whether sent observers from Russia, Slutsky said: " probably not."
He said that the status of observers may be formed in the same manner as it was at the last elections of the President of Ukraine.
To create a surveillance mission as long as there is even the basics - in the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs until now not received the invitation for control over elections or from the Ukrainian Parliament, nor in the line of the CIS Executive Committee, " said Slutsky.
according to his statement, as a rule, such invitations are sent one month prior to the voting day." currently remains almost less than 2 weeks. Anyway, European MPs have already told about their participation and are accreditation procedures For election observation, " said Slutsky.
at the same time, according to him, if the remaining term of the invitation to the state Duma will be, for example, through the OSCE, the Russian people's representatives have the opportunity to take measures for the participation of the international mission on observation.
before the Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said that the Russian senators ready to become observers at the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, if there is an appropriate sentence.
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