From Sudanese Online, Friday, 09 April 2010:
Khartoum, April 8 (SUNA) - The Arab European Independent Mission for monitoring of Sudanese elections has stated that it would deploy 18 observers to follow the election and monitor the process in 17 states and that it would follow up all the process to the end.
The chief of the Mission Dr Violet Daguerre has pointed out in a press conference that the mission involved a group of non governmental organizations from France, Jordan, Norway, Iraq, Bahrain with vast experience in the domain of monitoring elections and that these organizations have agreed to take part in the monitoring of the elections in the Sudan.
She said the mission would follow up the process and see how the laws and regulations and the local and international principles are applied.
Dr Violet has expressed hope that the elections would be conducted in a peaceful and calm climate that would allow the observers to carry out their role.
She said what she saw in the Sudan was different from what is being reported about the country.
