UNDP to sponsor PNG Election Observers

The United Nations Development Programme will be coordinating and supporting over 100 international election observers in this year's election, in support of the Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission.

PNG United Nation's Resident Coordinator Roy Trivedy said, the UN will coordinate international observers from more than 12 groups including The Commonwealth, Melanesian Spearhead Group, Australian National University, and the Australian High Commission amongst others.

UNDP is the largest provider of electoral assistance in the UN system and it has been involved in supporting the electoral cycle in more than 58 countries and most recently in Papua New Guinea, in Bougainville’s 2015 General Elections