Long-term observer teams cover one or two oblasts of Ukraine.

An official said today that an observer team was stationed in Moliro.

He was apparently referring to a 14-member observer team sent by President Bush.

Foreign monitors said their observer teams were barred today from entering any area of suspected conflict.

After several days of following village elections in northeast China with an international observer team, two lessons stand out.

So would proposals for monitoring of an election by an international observer team of some kind.

That should occur within the next few days as observer teams report.

I was part of an observer team during a presidential campaign in a newly independent country.

It is also very important for us to emphasise the need to support domestic observer teams.

We will certainly look into the possibility of sending another observer team to the presidential elections in 2002.