21.   In Togo, the EU will help raise voter awareness and observe elections.

22.   In the weeklong trip, the journalists also visited Pag-asa, the largest of the eight islands occupied by Filipinos, to observe local elections there.

23.   Interior Minister Yogie Memed said this month that foreigners would be invited to observe the elections.

24.   Negotiators have agreed that international monitors should observe the elections and that no groups should be barred from participating, sources close to the talks said.

25.   Representatives of all candidates are supposed to be allowed to observe the election.

26.   Sources close to the talks say negotiators agree that international monitors should observe the elections and that no groups should be barred from participating.

27.   Tajik officials say elections will be observed by some diplomats serving in Tajikistan and delegations from several former Soviet republics, including Russia.

28.   Teams from the United Nations, British Commonwealth and European Union are observing the elections.

29.   The archbishop was invited to observe previous elections, but he said this time the nuns may vote without an observer.

30.   The elections are being observed by tens of thousands of Cambodian and international observers, including many from the European Union.