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    Interfax, Russia
    Jan 2 2008



    Georgian presidential ballots printed in Russian, Armenian, Azeri,
    Ossetian


    Tbilisi, 2 January: The Georgian Central Electoral Commission [CEC]
    has ensured that all conditions are in place for ethnic minorities to
    take part in the presidential election [on 5 January], CEC chairman
    Levan Tarkhnishvili has said.

    The CEC has printed ballots for non-Georgian-speaking voters. Ballots
    have been printed in the Russian, Azerbaijani, Armenian and Ossetian
    languages," he said at a meeting of the CEC on Wednesday [2 January].

    "We have taken all possible measures to ensure that voters belonging
    to ethnic minority groups can vote in equal conditions as [ethnic]
    Georgians and so that they can vote freely and in conditions of equal
    rights," the CEC chairman said.

    Tarkhnishvili said that not only have ballots been printed in four
    [non-Georgian] languages, but also that the voter rolls, district
    electoral commission documents, voting instructions and voter cards
    had been translated into these languages.

    "Public service announcements on the rules for voting in the
    presidential election and plebiscite [asking if the next
    parliamentary election should be held in spring 2008 and whether
    voters support Georgia's accession to NATO] have been translated into
    these languages for the sake of national minorities," Tarkhnishvili
    added.
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