OAS deploys EOM to Belize

The Organization of American States (OAS) has deployed its Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) to Belize for the November 4 general elections.

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The OAS said the mission, headed by Ambassador Jacinth Henry-Martin, Chief of Staff to OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, began its deployment on Wednesday.

The delegation comprises observers from Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, El Salvador, France, Mexico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States.

The OAS said the Mission will focus its observation on electoral organization and other issues in the electoral process.

It will also gather information about the status of the recommendations made in the last EOM to Belize in 2012.

 

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