on Thursday deployed a group of 34 long-term observers throughout Nepal.
The observers arrived in the country on October 13 to observe the Constituent Assembly elections scheduled for November 19. [break]
After three days of comprehensive briefing in Kathmandu, EU observers are being deployed to all the regions of Nepal.
Over the next weeks, the observers will meet with election officials, candidates and representatives of civil society, among others, and will report their observations back to Kathmandu.
Shortly before elections, a group of 40 short-term observers together with a delegation of members of the European Parliament and locally-recruited short term observers from EU members states embassies will be joining the mission in order to observe voting, counting and the tabulation of results.
In total, the EU EOM will comprise of over 100 observers from 26 Member States as well as Norway and Switzerland.
EU election observers are bound by a strict code of conduct that ensures their neutrality and impartiality.
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