Observers from almost all European organizations have been invited to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
“We have 34,000 polling stations. If you want to send 34,000 observers, please do – we’re ready to receive all of them. We hosted two million visitors at Euro 2012, accommodated all of them, and everyone was happy. Therefore, 34,000 observers is not a high figure,” the government’s press service quoted him as saying at a meeting with a delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Azarov assured his guests that the government would do everything possible to ensure the parliamentary elections are fair, democratic and transparent.
“We finally want to stop all of the talk about someone wanting to rig the elections. We will have to spend several hundred million dollars, but will create a system that will ensure there are completely transparent elections,” Azarov said.
