Brussels, 10/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has just deployed an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Sri Lanka for the Parliamentary Elections on 2 April. This is the third mission of its kind and, for the third time, EU observers are headed by John Cushnahan, Fine Gael MEP. The European Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, notes in a press release that the electoral campaign has so far been marked by violence and killings. He calls on the political...