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Annan welcomes DR of Congo’s new legal framework
Annan welcomes Democratic Republic of Congo’s new legal framework
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the new Constitution and electoral laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United Nations is helping to organize one of the biggest polls in which it has ever participated.
“These steps mark important milestones in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Mr. Annan said in a statement released by his spokesman.
“The Secretary-General looks forward to the early publication by the Independent Electoral Commission of an electoral calendar providing for the timely holding of free, fair and transparent elections,” the spokesman added, pledging all possible UN support for the elections and the Congolese peace process as a whole.
In December, about 25 million Congolese registered to vote in a referendum to endorse the Constitution, paving the way for the country’s first free elections in more than four decades and one of the biggest polls – with 36,000 vote offices and nearly 200,000 electoral agents – in which the UN has participated.
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