International Election Observers

The following organisations, countries and persons have been invited by the Zimbabwe government to observe general elections set for July 30 2018:

BLOCS:

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

SADC Parliamentary Forum

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

African Union (AU) Commission

The Commonwealth

Pan-African Parliament

European Union (EU) Commission

EU Parliament

African Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP)

ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Diplomatic Missions Bilaterally Accredited to Zimbabwe, (five diplomats per embassy)

Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

 

The European Union’s observer mission to the 2016 Uganda general election

COUNTRIES

 North America

Canada; Mexico, USA

South America

Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela

Caribbean

Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana

Australia & Pacific

Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea

Asia

China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Palestine, South Korea, Thailand

Liberation Movements

African National Congress (ANC), South Africa

Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Tanzania

FRELIMO, Mozambique

SWAPO, Namibia,

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Botswana

US Senator Jeff Flakes, who is co-sponsoring a Bill seeking to amend Washington’s sanctions against Zimbabwe, has also been invited to observe the 2018 polls

Eminent Persons

Andrew Jackson Young, former U.S. Congressman and Ambassador to the United Nations

Jeffrey Lane Flake, U.S. Senator for Arizona and member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

 Factsheet compiled by ZimFact Staff

 

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