22/12/2015 (Agence Europe)- EU to deploy election observation mission in Uganda. On Tuesday 22 December, the European Union announced that in response to an invitation from the Ugandan authorities, it is to deploy an election observation mission in Uganda to observe the general, presidential and local council elections scheduled for 18 February. The MEP Eduard Kukan (EPP, Slovakia) has been appointed observer-in-chief of the mission by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. The core of the mission, which will be made up of 10 elections experts, will arrive in the country on 28 December and will remain there until the end of the election process. These experts will be joined by 30 long-term observers on 8 January and by 30 short-term observers in February, who will be deployed across the country. A delegation of the European and EU diplomats resident in the country will reinforce the mission on election day. This will be the third time that the EU has observed elections in Uganda, the other times being in 2006 and 2011. (CG)