By Prensa Latina
Moscow : Russia brought the tense negotiations with representatives of European missions to an end Thursday, by rejecting the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’ (ODIHR) conditionings on the presidential elections.
The Office orchestrated its own murky rules and Russia, “as a country with self-respect, does not admit any ultimatum,” Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov affirmed alluding to the situation of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The OSCE adjunct institution demanded the Central Electoral Commission to change the amount of its representatives at the March 2 elections, and move up their arrival.
Lavrov commented they lamented that the Office had given an ultimatum, and added it corroborates the need to reform those structures.
He said that the European organization continuously issued public releases with threats that if the Russian party fails to accomplish all its demands, it would not send observers to Russia.
The Russian minister’s statements were followed by the announcement today that neither ODIHR nor OSCE Parliamentarian Assembly will attend the presidential elections as viewers.
For political scientist Gleb Pavlovski, those pronunciations could be the beginning of a ploy to declare the presidential elections unlawful.