Commonwealth Observer Groups

Commonwealth Observer Groups are groups formed to monitor elections in various countries around the world. Each group is usually made up of various Statesmen from various countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. The job of each Group is to assess whether the elections are conducted fairly. At the end of the observation period, reports are written and submitted to the Commonwealth headquarters. The following are such groups formed^[1] to date:

• Antigua and Barbuda^[2]
• Bangladesh
• Cameroon^[3]
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guyana^[4]
• Fiji
• Kenya
• Lesotho^[5]
• Malawi
• Maldives
• Malta
• Mozambique^[6]
• Nigeria^[7]
• Pakistan^[8]
• Papua New Guinea
• Sierra Leone^[9]
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• St Kitts and Nevis^[10][11]
• Tanzania
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Uganda^[12]
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

External sources

1. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/templates/system/search.asp?as_sitesearch=www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116&access=p&entqr=0&NodeID=20643&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&site=default_collection&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&q=observer+group+india&ip=89.21.18.153
2. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/press/31555/34582/34793/commonwealth_sends_observer_group_to_the_general_e.htm
3. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39178/cameroon/
4. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39182/guyana/
5. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39184/lesotho/
6. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39186/142050/176333/about_bookmarks/
7. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/shared_asp_files/GFSR.asp
8. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39189/pakistan/
9. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/document/34293/35144/174418/report_of_the_com...
10. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39191/st_kitts_and_nevis/
11. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/39079/141116/39195/south_africa/
12. ↑ http://www.thecommonwealth.org/document/176283/177357/149671/uganda.htm