UNAMA Featured Photos: Ahead of Saturday’s resumption of the audit of ballots from Afghanistan’s Presidential election run-off, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the country, Ján Kubiš, said that the international community has enough election observers and the world body has a “sufficient number” of UN supervisors in place to support the audit process. In his remarks at a joint news conference with the Board of Commissioners from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission, Mr. Kubiš also announced that one of the “most eminent” UN election experts is due to arrive in Kabul on Friday to work with the IEC in the process of adjudicating the findings of the audit and will stay as long as necessary.” “While we fully respect the laws of the country and the mandates of the respective institutions, electoral institutions – in this case, the IEC – we are also very much honoured that the IEC accepted this international supervision and partnership,” the Special Representative said. “This is unprecedented, and we are very proud that we can work together hand-in-hand.” Mr. Kubiš’s comments come a day after the election body decided to adopt criteria for the invalidation and recount of ballots as part of the ongoing comprehensive audit of the results of the run-off poll held on 14 June. The IEC decision is based on a UN proposal founded upon international best practice. Under the technical agreement reached by the two Presidential candidates, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani, on 12 July, the UN was asked to propose the manner for the international supervision of the audit, which it did after thorough and extensive consultations with both Presidential campaigns. The IEC decision has the full backing of the international community.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:22:07 +0000
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