"I was personally impressed and proud on behalf of the Serb people for the professional, orderly and well-organised way they carried out this election. It bodes well for Serbia's future," Lennmarker told a news conference in Belgade on Monday.
He told the conference that representatives of the OSCE Observation Mission and its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, established in mid December 2006, would remain in Serbia for another moths to observe the closure of the election process and the announcement of results.
The way the parliamentary elections were held in Serbia proves that the country has made significant progress towards ensuring a free expression of the will of the electorate, whose active participation in the vote shows its intense involvement in determining the vector of their country's development, Tadeusz Iwinski, the Head of the Delegation of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, said. "All this is extremely important in light of Serbia's upcoming chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe that starts in May 2007," he added.
The international observers also noted that this was the first time that representatives of the Albanian national minority tool part in the elections in Serbia.