Press Release: EU deploys Election Observation Mission to Nepal

The European Commission will deploy a 110-member EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the elections for a Constituent Assembly in Nepal scheduled to take place on 10 April 2008. The mission will be led by Jan Mulder, Member of the European Parliament, who will officially launch the EU EOM in Kathmandu on 18th March 2008. The mission will consist of forty long-term and over sixty short-term observers in addition to a core team of ten experts. The mission will stay in Nepal for an over-all period of ten weeks. Once elected, the Constituent Assembly will draft a new constitution and so determine Nepal’s future form of Government.