Russian and SCO observers refrain from final statement on Kyrgyz

MOSCOW, June 29 (Itar-Tass) -- Observers from Russia's Central
Electoral Commission (CEC) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
so far refrain from final comments on the June 27 referendum in
Kyrgyzstan, CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov said on Tuesday.
Churov headed a Russian CEC observer mission at Kyrgyzstan's
referendum on constitutional reform.
"So far we refrain from a final statement, we have to analyse a great
number of factors," he told the Ekho Moskvy radio station. According to
Churov, the SCO mission is not planning to come out with a final statement
within the next one to two days either.
The OSCE mission, which "gave a rather high estimate of the
referendum," failed to send a short-term observer mission to Kyrgyzstan,
Churov noted, admitting however that the OSCE had a long-term mission in
the republic. A representative from Russia's St. Petersburg election
commission, Alexei Gromov, was among the mission's members.
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