Myanmar to Invite Western Observers for General Election

A senior member of Myanmar's government has said members of the U.S.-based Carter Center and the European Union will be invited to monitor a general election later this year -- the first time in at least 65 years that the country will call in Western poll observers. "We'll allow the Carter Foundation and EU to observe the upcoming general election independently to ensure the election takes place free and fair," Soe Thein, a senior minister at the president's office,...

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