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Five hundred and forty-three international experts have arrived in Ukraine to monitor the presidential elections, scheduled for May 25, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.

“The Central Election Commission had registered 543 election monitors
representing international organizations and individual states by May
5. Among them are election monitors from Canada, Lithuania, the United
States, France, Japan and the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said at a press
briefing in Kyiv.

He said the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe, NATO and the GUAM Organization for Democracy and
Economic Development, comprised of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and
Moldova, plan to send their experts to Ukraine.

Perebyinis also said that a long-term mission of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe has been working in Ukraine since
March 19. The short-term monitoring mission will be comprised of over
900 monitors, he said.