The Russian Central Electoral Commission will not send observers to parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, CEC head Vladimir Churov said on Thursday.
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva on Tuesday set parliamentary elections in the country for October 10.
Churov said CEC staff members will be engaged on October 10 in regional and local elections in Russia.
"Definitely, none of the Central Committee members will be sent to the elections [in Kyrgyzstan]," Churov said.
The announcement of the election date in Kyrgyzstan came shortly after the interim government lifted the state of emergency and curfew declared in southern Kyrgyzstan two months ago amid interethnic violence.
Fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the city of Osh and surrounding areas killed some 300 people, according to official estimates, with the unofficial death toll topping 2,000.
The Kyrgyz interim government came to power in April amid large-scale opposition protests that overthrew former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Bakiyev fled the country and has taken refuge in Belarus.
MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti)
