ODIHR observers to hold press conference in Nur-Sultan on Wednesday

NUR-SULTAN, 6 May 2019 – On the occasion of the formal opening of the election observation mission deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to observe the 9 June early presidential election in Kazakhstan, the mission will hold a press conference in Nur-Sultan on Wednesday.

Urszula Gacek, Head of the ODIHR election observation mission, will introduce the role of the mission and its upcoming activities. The mission's deployment follows an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ODIHR election observation mission and the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan operate separately and independently under their own mandates.

Journalists are invited to attend the press conference at 11:00, Wednesday, 8 May, in Conference hall “Garden 1&2”, Hotel Hilton Garden Inn, Kabanbay Batyr Avenue 15. 010000, Nur-Sultan.

For further information, please contact Kira Kalinina, Media Analyst with the election observation mission, at +7 701 6436097 or at kira.kalinina@odihr.kz.

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Katya Andrusz, ODIHR Spokesperson, at +48 609 522 266 (Warsaw mobile), or at katya.andrusz@odihr.pl.