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UN:
SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PEACEFUL RUN-OFF ELECTIONS IN SIERRA LEONE:
11/9/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.) |
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- 11 September 2007 – This
weekend’s presidential run-off election in Sierra Leone was generally orderly
and peaceful despite the violence and tensions preceding the polls, United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday, urging the country’s people
to resolve any future disputes through legal channels.
Sierra
Leoneans cast their ballots on 8 September in the second-round of presidential
elections between Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress and incumbent
Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, who are
vying to succeed President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
In a
statement, a spokesperson for the Secretary-General said he “urges the
political parties and people of Sierra Leone to exercise restraint as counting
of the ballots proceeds and to resolve all arising disputes through the existing
legal channels.”
Earlier
this month, the two presidential candidates signed a communiqué on measures to
try to calm tensions in Sierra Leone.
In a
statement on the eve of the run-off, Mr. Ban voiced his deep concern over
incidents of harassment, intimidation and violence involving supporters of the
two main political parties in the West African country, which is seeking to
rebuild after a devastating decade-long civil war.
The 11
August presidential and parliamentary elections were Sierra Leone’s second
since the end of the decade-long civil war in 2002, and the first since the
withdrawal of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in December 2005. The
mission has been replaced by the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL).
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