International observers present election findings this afternoon

International observers monitoring yesterday's Parliamentary Elections in Georgia will present their preliminary post-election findings this afternoon in capital Tbilisi.

Special coordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission, Ignacio Sanchez Amor, will deliver a statement for media. 

Other international monitor envoys who will participate in the press conference are:

• Head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation Emanuelis Zingeris
• Heads of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) delegation Guglielmo Picchi and Paolo Alli, 
• Head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) delegation Ana Gomes
• Head of the European Parliament (EP) delegation, Ambassador Alexandre Keltchewsky, 
• Head of the OSCE/ODIHR long-term election observation mission.

The International Election Observation Mission comprises of 420 observers from 39 countries, including 324 long-term and short-term observers deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 38 parliamentarians and staff from the OSCE PA, 28 from PACE, 17 from the NATO PA and 13 from European Parliament.

The mission is a joint undertaking of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, PACE, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the European Parliament.

The press conference will be live streamed here.