The observer mission will eventually have up to 200 members.

They did back the idea of an African observer mission to assess the situation on the ground.

In 2005 I was the chairman of a small observer mission for the elections there.

Officials from international observer missions said it was too soon to put the reports of abuses into a full context.

I am certainly not questioning the remarkable work of the civilian observer mission on the ground.

That is why we have accepted the sending of an observer mission.

The UN says 400 people have been killed by security forces since the start of the observer mission.

I hope we can solve the problems of funding of the observer mission.

However, the conditions for organising and implementing such an observer mission still have to be determined.

It is also the only instrument that finances electoral observer missions.