"We will be spending an additional 3 million dollars to help fund the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), US and nongovernmental monitoring and other election-related activities. The 3 million dollars will support 100 US observers as part of a 960 observer OSCE mission to Ukraine," State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said at a news briefing.

The United States urged all parties in Ukraine to move quickly to implement the decision of holding a run-off election on Dec. 26 and to ensure that the vote "be democratic, fair and just and produces results that accurately reflect the will of the Ukrainian people."

Ereli said the United States thanks Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and the European Union commissioner Javier Solana for their mediation in the Ukrainian election crisis.

The United States has admitted that it provided funds to institutions in Ukraine to have a fair election, but it denied ever providing funds to the presidential candidates.

Ukraine has been in a political crisis since the Nov. 21 presidential election, victory in which has been claimed by both pro-Moscow candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, and pro-Western candidate, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.

Ukraine's highest court has ordered to have a new runoff vote on Dec. 26.