UNAMA FEATURED PHOTO: 12 June 2014
Encouraging Afghans to take part in the upcoming elections, calling on the Afghan security forces to secure the polls, asking the country’s two election management bodies to fully implement recommendations to improve the voting process and urging responsible actions from the candidates and their supporters – these were some of the key messages of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, at a news conference in the capital, Kabul, today, ahead of the country’s second round run-off Presidential elections set to take place this Saturday. “Afghanistan is heading for one of the most important days in the modern history of the country: the run-off Presidential elections on the 14th of June,” Mr. Kubiš said. “I am convinced that next Saturday, the people of Afghanistan will – with the same determination, resilience and courage [shown in the first round of elections] – manifest their wish for a peaceful, prosperous, stable and united Afghanistan.” The Afghan Presidential elections, which mark the first-ever transfer of power from one elected leader to another in the country’s history, are in a run-off stage after none of the candidates in the first round of the vote, held on 5 April, achieved the 50 per cent plus one result needed to win. Two leading candidates from that round are competing in the second round run-off.
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Photo: Fardin Waezi / UNAMA
UNAMA FEATURED PHOTO: 12 June 2014
Encouraging Afghans to take part in the upcoming elections, calling on the Afghan security forces to secure the polls, asking the country’s two election management bodies to fully implement recommendations to improve the voting process and urging responsible actions from the candidates and their supporters – these were some of the key messages of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, at a news conference in the capital, Kabul, today, ahead of the country’s second round run-off Presidential elections set to take place this Saturday. “Afghanistan is heading for one of the most important days in the modern history of the country: the run-off Presidential elections on the 14th of June,” Mr. Kubiš said. “I am convinced that next Saturday, the people of Afghanistan will – with the same determination, resilience and courage [shown in the first round of elections] – manifest their wish for a peaceful, prosperous, stable and united Afghanistan.” The Afghan Presidential elections, which mark the first-ever transfer of power from one elected leader to another in the country’s history, are in a run-off stage after none of the candidates in the first round of the vote, held on 5 April, achieved the 50 per cent plus one result needed to win. Two leading candidates from that round are competing in the second round run-off.
For more: bit.ly/1kQwW9Q
Photo: Fardin Waezi / UNAMA