AFRICAN UNION UNION AFRICAINE UNIÃO AFRICANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia P. O. Box 3243 Telephone: +251 11 551 7700 / +251 11 518 25 58/ Ext 2558 Website: www.au.int Directorate of Information and Communication Press Release AUC Chairperson Approves the Deployment of African Union Short-Term Observers (STOs) Mission to Ethiopia Addis Ababa, 13th May 2015: The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has approved the deployment of fifty (50) members of the African Union Short-Term Observation (STO) Mission to the 24 May 2015 Parliamentary Elections in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The STOs will arrive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 17 May 2015 and will remain in Ethiopia until 28 May 2015. The STO will complement the work of African Union Long Term Observers (LTOs) who have been deployed since 19 April 2015 to follow up on the pre-election context. The African Union Electoral Observation Mission (AUEOM) will be led by His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, Former President of the Republic of Namibia. The mission comprises fifty (50) Short Term Observers (STOs) from AU Member States and will be deployed throughout the country to follow the electoral process and to meet with government and electoral officials, candidates and political parties, civil society representatives and media to provide a critical assessment of the conduct of elections. The Mission has the mandate to observe the Parliamentary Elections in line with relevant African Union and international instruments such as the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, the OAU/AU Declaration on the Principles Governing Democratic Elections in Africa, the African Union Guidelines for Election Observation and Monitoring Missions, the International Covenant on Civil Political Rights (ICCPR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the 2005 Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation to which the AU is a signatory and the national laws of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The Mission shall provide an objective, independent and impartial assessment of the conduct of the elections in line with the aforementioned international and regional best practices and standards. For more information, please contact Chika Charles Aniekwe and Karine Kakasi Siaba Email: Aniekwec@Africa-Union.org and Kakasik@africa-union.org Democracy and Electoral Assistance Unit (DEAU) DPA, AUC Directorate of Information and Communication. African Union Commission E mail: dinfo@africa-union.org
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