Albania caved in to pressure from European countries and agreed yesterday to accept a monitoring team for June 28 elections whose British leader was considered objectionable.

Prime Minister Sali Berisha had asked the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to remove Audrey Glover, a British poll watcher, claiming she had shown a lack of realism in her organisation’s report about Albania’s 1996 elections.

But he accepted the team after European Union countries made clear their position in support of Glover, whose monitors at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will evaluate the election. “We decided to approve observers,” Central Commission said, according to its spokesman.