(7 Sep 2010)
1. Mid shot of journalists sitting in news conference
2. Wide shot of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Jonker, Head of Mission to the Kyrgyz Republic of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights:
"The Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE has deployed an observation mission for these elections."
4. Close up of official writing on paper
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Jonker, Head of Mission to the Kyrgyz Republic of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights:
"We will also assess the campaign, the resolution of election related disputes, as well as events on election day including voting, counting, tabulation of the results."
6. Close up of camera operator
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Jonker, Head of Mission to the Kyrgyz Republic of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
"Our core team of experts will be assessing the upcoming elections for their compliance with international principles for democratic elections with OSCE commitments which were agreed by all participating states, including the Kyrgyz Republic."
8. Close up of conference participants speaking to journalists
STORYLINE:
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) began an election observation mission on Tuesday in Kyrgyzstan, a turbulent Central Asian state facing crucial parliamentary elections on October 10.
"Our core team of experts will be assessing the upcoming elections for their compliance with international principles for democratic elections," Cornelia Jonker, the head of the OSCE electoral mission to Kyrgyzstan told reporters in the capital Bishkek.
The strategically located ex-Soviet state which hosts both U.S. and Russian military bases, has remained tense ahead of the elections, called after former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was driven from power in a bloody uprising in April.
Unrest in June, which was sparked by small clashes in the southern city of Osh swelled into devastating rampages by ethnic Kyrgyz mobs on Uzbek neighbourhoods.
The violence left hundreds of minority Uzbeks dead and forced 400-thousand others to flee.
The OSCE is also due to send 52 unarmed police officers to the south to monitor the fragile peace in the south.
The mission has the backing of interim President Roza Otunbayeva, who says its presence may prevent human rights abuses.
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