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In
August 1991, on the initiative of International Foundation
for Election Systems (IFES) the Central European Electoral
Systems Symposium was organised in Budapest, Hungary. As a
result of this meeting, participants agreed to establish an
association to develop democratic processes and procedures
in the region. The new organisation, the ACEEEO was established
in November 1991, in Budapest, on Hungary's initiative, with
IFES' support.
ACEEEO
is a non governmental and nonprofit organisation whose main
aim is to contribute to democratic and fair elections in the
region. The mission of the organisation is to provide a nonpartisan
forum, independent of national governments, for the exchange
of information among election officials and experts throughout
the region covered by the Association to discuss and act upon
ways to promote open and transparent elections with the objective
of supporting good governance and democracy.
The
supreme organ of the Association is the General Assembly.
In general the Association is governed by the Executive Board
consisting of seven institutional member countries' representatives
(Croatia, Latvia,Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine).
ACEEEO
Headquaters, its Secretariat and the Documentation Centre
are in Budapest. Dr. Zoltán Tóth, former Director of Elections
for Hungary has been the Secretary General of the Association
since its establishment.
ACEEEO
has a wide range of activities, for example:
- to
hold yearly conferences
- to
maintain a Documentation Centre
- to
act as an international observer of elections
- to
organise education and training for electoral officials
- to
improve international co-operation
- to
help in establishing electoral committies
- to
exchange experience of electoral experts
Until
now conferences of the ACEEEO were held in Budapest, Siófok,
Kiev, Moscow, Vilnius, Bratislava and Warsaw. In 2001 the
annual conference will be held in Zagreb, Croatia. At this
moment ACEEEO has 18 institutional members, which are the
following: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Moldova, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine.
We are determined to make new efforts to increase the number
of member states. Our strategic aim is to become an European
association of election officials based on the wide co-operation
of its members.
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