{"id":281741,"date":"2016-10-20T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281741"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:06:28","slug":"united-states-bars-russian-monitors-from-presidential-polls-elections-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/united-states-bars-russian-monitors-from-presidential-polls-elections-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"United States bars Russian monitors from presidential polls \u2013 elections commission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So the USA finds normal to \u201cmonitor\u201d elections in other countries, but does not accept others to monitor its own elections\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The US has rejected a Russian proposal to send diplomats to monitor the upcoming presidential elections and some states have even threatened to bring criminal charges against any that appear at ballot stations, Russian election officials report.<\/p>\n

Sources in the Central Elections Commission\u00a0have told Izvestia daily\u00a0that its representatives held a series of talks with the US State Department to discuss sending a delegation of monitors to US polling stations on November 8. US officials categorically rejected even the possibility of such a mission, however, instead recommending that Russia join the international mission of the OSCE\u2019s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).<\/p>\n

The request was also rejected on a state level, and in three states \u2013 Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas \u2013 officials used \u201cvery harsh formulas\u201d to do so, the sources said. \u201cIn violation of all principles of democracy and international monitoring, in Texas they even threatened to hold monitors who appear at ballot stations criminally responsible,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

The head of the Central Election Commission\u2019s department for international relations, Vasily Likhachev, said that the US response reminded him of the Cold War, and that it was fully in line with the \u201cRussophobic trends\u201d currently promoted by the US State Department. \u201cAmericans obstruct Russia\u2019s attempts to monitor their elections because they see them as a threat. The refusal to allow Russian diplomats to perform their direct duties is a demonstrative violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, on Thursday, Likhachev told Interfax that the Russia could not go along with the suggestion to use ODIHR mission because participating in it would involve additional restrictions against visiting polling stations in some US states.<\/p>\n

He also said that Russian experts planned to conduct \u201cremote\u201d monitoring of US polls \u201cin spite of all the obstructions and complications\u201d by analyzing reports from mass media and the internet, as well as other data received through open channels. The Central Elections Commission already has practice doing this, as it conducted such observations during the last US presidential election in 2012, he added.<\/p>\n

Senator Andrey Klimov, deputy chairman of the Upper House\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the situation once again confirms that Americans have no respect for international law. \u201cIn addition, they are suffering from some sort of persecutory delusion \u2013 they imagine that Russians want to distort their elections and somehow intend to do it while acting as observers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

MP Yelena Panina, who is a member of the State Duma\u2019s International Affairs Committee, called the US\u2019 refusal a very dangerous policy that it could lead to new conflicts.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Russia sent personal invitations to US monitors asking them to observe the September parliamentary elections, and 63 accepted the offer. In total, 774 monitors from 63 nations received accreditation to observe Russia\u2019s parliamentary elections. In addition, US representatives visited Russia earlier as part of an OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights\u2019 monitoring mission.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced in late May that would invite representatives of four international political blocs and organizations to this year\u2019s parliamentary elections. Invitations were extended to representatives of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and the OSCE\u2019s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).<\/p>\n

At the same time, representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) were denied access to the September polls, because of the ongoing infringement of the rights of the Russian delegation in this group.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/363478-united-states-bars-russian-monitors\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: So the USA finds normal to \u201cmonitor\u201d elections in other countries, but does not accept others to monitor its own elections\u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}