ANNUAL REPORT 2004 Elections Election observation and assessment missions conducted in 2004 Country Type of Election Date Georgia Presidential 4 January Russian Federation Presidential 14 March Spain Parliamentary 14 March Georgia Repeat parliamentary 28 March Slovak Republic Presidential 3 April Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Presidential 14 April/28 April Serbia/Serbia and Montenegro Presidential 13 June/27 June Kazakhstan Parliamentary 19 September/3 October Bosnia and Herzegovina Municipal 2 October Belarus Parliamentary 17 October Ukraine Presidential 31 October/21 November/26 December United States of America Presidential/congressional 2 November Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Referendum 7 November Romania Presidential/parliamentary 28 November/12 December Uzbekistan Parliamentary 26 December
Diversification of the membership of election observation missions mentary Assembly during its observation of the presi- Through a voluntary fund established in 2001, the gional elections, the ODIHR also co-operates with the ODIHR continued to diversify the international profile Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Au- of its election observation missions by recruiting elec- thorities of Europe. dential election in Ukraine. In the case of local and re- tion experts and qualified observers from Central, Eastern, and South–Eastern Europe and the former Soviet The ODIHR also received a delegation in Warsaw from Union, including 14 long-term and 388 short-term ob- the CIS Secretariat for briefings on the ODIHR’s obser- servers in 2004. Experts from eligible countries have vation methodology. added a diversity of experience to observation missions, while also gaining knowledge and experience During election observation missions throughout the that can be reinvested in their own countries. year, the ODIHR met with observers from other international organizations, including the International Re-
Co-operation with parliamentary observers publican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, The ODIHR enjoyed close co-operation with the OSCE the CIS, and the Association of Central and Eastern Eu- Parliamentary Assembly, the Council of Europe’s Parlia- ropean Election Officials. mentary Assembly, and the European Parliament during its observation missions in 2004. The ODIHR also co-operated, for the first time, with the NATO Parlia- 13