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AZERBAIJAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Daria Solovieva (dsolovieva@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 13:43:25 EST
Ambassador Peter Burkhard, who heads the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) office in Baku, held a news conference on 6
February to review the office's activities over the previous 12 months,
zerkalo.az reported on 7 February. Burkhard rejected allegations that the
International Election Observation Mission to the 15 October presidential
election passed judgment on the outcome of that ballot, stressing that the
mission's task is to evaluate only the pre-election campaign, the voting, and
the vote count. Burkhard also rejected as misplaced allegations that
Ambassador Peter Eicher, who headed the Election Observation Mission,
was involved in an attempted coup d'etat by opposition forces following the
ballot (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 4 February 2004). Burkhard stressed that
Eicher met late on 15 October with defeated opposition presidential
candidate Isa Qambar at the request of the Azerbaijani authorities to try to
persuade Qambar to order his supporters to desist from their public
protests. LF
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