(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Egypt's High Election Commission signed Sunday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the European Union (EU) to send a European team to help monitor upcoming presidential elections
Commission Chairman Justice Anwar Al-Aasi, at a joint news conference with head of the EU Delegation to Egypt Ambassador James Moran, said the commission was keen on holding fully transparent elections
The commission, he added, wanted to inform the public opinion in and outside Egypt that the North African country was taking steady democratic steps
Al-Aasi said the commission would allow the EU team to access electoral centers to monitor the process along with civil society organizations
Ambassador Moran said sending an EU team was part of cooperation between the two sides
He said the EU would help Egypt hold comprehensive, transparent and credible elections with the objective of bolstering democracy, rule of law and human rights
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