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OAS and CARICOM to Send Joint Electoral Observation Mission to Haiti
July 23, 2010
During a recent meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti, the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, informed that the hemispheric organization and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will send a joint Electoral Observation Mission to Haiti in preparation for the legislative and presidential elections of November 28.
The Mission will be integrated by more than 150 people to be deployed throughout the Caribbean nation, and would be charged with following the electoral process in the months before the elections as well as the voting on Election Day. It is hoped that a core group of people will arrive in Haiti at the beginning of August.
Ambassador Ramdin said this is the first time the OAS and CARICOM have partnered together to provide electoral observation assistance, explaining that this new collaboration will allow them to be more effective.
“We believe that if a country is in need of help, whether it’s political, economic or social, or whether it is in need of technical assistance, we need to work together with the subregional integration entity or cooperation entity, in this case CARICOM,” he said, adding that preparations for the November elections are moving ahead efficiently. “From a technical perspective, preparations for the elections are well on target, they are on schedule,” he explained. “So if everything goes well in terms of technical preparation we believe we can have free, fair and credible elections.”
Highlighting the importance of timely elections in Haiti, Ramdin added that successful elections could speed up the reconstruction process of the country. “If we have elections at the end of the year, we may have a much better situation by February next year to intensify the process of social and economic reconstruction, and work towards sustainable development,” he added.
Legislative elections in the Caribbean country were postponed after the January 12 earthquake. Since then, the OAS has been and will continue to be involved in various aspects of the Haitian electoral process, including: the registration of new voters, whose addresses changed after the earthquake; providing technical assistance to the country’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP); and providing technical expertise and equipment for the establishment of tabulation centers.
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