Crimea sends official invitation to OSCE to monitor referendum. -80% Crimeans support accession to Russia

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea's legislature has officially invited observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to come to the Crimea to monitor the March 16 referendum.

"An invitation has been handed to Switzerland, the country that holds the rotating presidency of the OSCE, for representatives of the member-countries and of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor voting at the March 16 referendum in the Crimea," sources in the Crimean parliament told Interfax.

• 80% Crimeans support accession to Russia. – polls

More than 80 percent of the Crimean population would back the republic’s accession to Russia. That is according to the Supreme Council’s chairman, Vladimir Konstantinov, who cites recent opinion poll results.

“Over 80% of Crimea residents are going to vote for accession to Russia, according to yesterday’s focus-group surveys,” Mr. Konstantinov said.

He predicted a “considerably high” turnout for the upcoming referendum on March 16 that will decide the fate of the Black Sea peninsula.

• Crimea’s authorities and its population are voicing no concern about the fact that Kiev is refusing to recognize the Crimean referendum and has even cancelled it, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, told newsmen Monday.

“We are even glad to learn that the Kiev authorities are refusing to recognize the referendum. We have not recognized them either,” said Speaker of the Crimean Parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov .

By the time the referendum is underway, he will have more supporters, Konstantinov stressed.

He believes a considerable proportion of the Ukrainian population continues to say that the people support the policies of Crimean authorities and the referendum.

“Nobody wants to live under the Kiev regime,” Konstantinov stressed...........http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_10/Crimea-sends-official-invitation-to-OSCE-to-monitor-referendum-9492/

10/3/14

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