Updated 3:28 p.m. Moscow Time
KIEV, September 25 (RIA Novosti) – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) may send its observers to East Ukraine’s Donbas region to arrange monitoring of the forthcoming October 26 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the assembly’s chief said Thursday.
PA OSCE chief Ilkka Kanerva said observers may be sent “for a couple of days” to the cities of Odesa and Donetsk as well as other locations in Donbas.
On August 27, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree, dissolving the country's parliament and setting new election for October 26.
After he entered into office, Poroshenko has repeatedly highlighted the need to hold early parliamentary election, saying the current composition fails to represent the interests of the Ukrainian society.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in Donbas refuse to hold any Ukrainian elections on their territories. Instead, independence supporters plan to hold their own parliamentary election in early November.