{"id":207895,"date":"2005-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=207895"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:28:02","slug":"auto-insert-207895","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-207895\/","title":{"rendered":"OIC dispatches observer mission to Palestinian elections &#8211; OIC press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>Press Release<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><strong>&#160;<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#808000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Palestinian Presidential Elections:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#808000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>The OIC Dispatches an Observer Mission<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Within the context of the Organization of the Islamic Conference&#8217;s contribution to strengthening Palestinian democratic institutions and enabling the presidential elections in Palestine to succeed, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has decided to dispatch a delegation of OIC observers to monitor the progress of the presidential elections to be held next Sunday, 9 January 2005.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The OIC mission will be leaving Jeddah for the West Bank on Wednesday to help monitor the elections. 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