HARARE: The commonwealth leaders reportedly agreed to a recommendation to have a facility to monitor elections in member-countries.
The ten-nation high-level appraisal group felt that such a facility would help member countries reinforce democracy.
The commonwealth secretariat plans to send a 13-member observer learn to monitor Zambia’s first multi-party elections in about two decades.
The secretariat is quite happy about the results achieved by sending similar teams to observe elections in Bangladesh and Malaysia recently.
India feels that the commonwealth should provide such assistance on request, but does not see a merit in institutionalizing the arrangement.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 25, 1991
