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EU to send over 100 election monitors

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers gave the backing on Monday to an EU Commission plan to send more than 100 observers to Zimbabwe to observe next month’s election, media reports said on Tuesday.

    External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten told a news conference in Brussels that an EU team which had just returned from Harare had recommended sending 100 monitors by 4 June and to send a further 50 poll monitors by 19 June.

    A statement by the 15 EU foreign ministers said that the ministers hoped that the elections would be free and fair. The ministers also called upon the Zimbabwean government to put an end to the violence and intimidation and to “ensure due respect for democratic principles, human rights and the rule of law”.

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