Sunday, October 06, 2013
Kabul (BNA) The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Special Representative to Afghanistan Jan Kubis while addressing a press conference in Kabul on Thursday reaffirmed longstanding support of the United Nations to Afghanistan and said that the UN is fully determined to provide financial and technical supports to Afghanistan for holding transparent, fair and free elections 2014.
However, Mr. Jan Kubis stressed that the holding of transparent elections will decide the future of the UN’s aids to Afghanistan.
The UN secretary general special representative to Afghanistan said that the international body is willing to dispatch its observers to Afghanistan for monitoring the election process.
Talking about the 8th UN Security Council General Assembly meeting held in New York, Jan Kubis said, that the Council has promised to provide security during the elections in Afghanistan.
He expressed optimism over the readiness of the country for holding the Presidential and Provincial Council’s Elections in a free, fair and transparent manner.
“Election is definitely important for Afghanistan, but as you can see, quality of preparations, conduct and then acceptance of results of the elections, is creating more positive environment for Afghanistan and is giving hopes to those that are committed to provide long-term support to Afghanistan, after 2014,” said Jan Kubis.
Mr. Kubis added that the European Parliament (EP) has agreed to send their representatives for supervising the upcoming elections in Afghanistan scheduled for 5th April 2014.
“The international community is ready and prepared to provide support for the domestic observation efforts and our support and engagement is being mobilized deploy international observation for the elections. I am encouraged to learn that the Europe Union, most likely the European Parliament may deploy an international observation missions.
And, there are many other international organizations and bodies that are ready to do so,” Mr. Kubis said.” The part of his support is sharing of the best international practices to help the promotion and act as a truly independent body.
This is the declared objective of the Commission and we are more than ready to help them to work as a truly independent and impartial body,” Mr. Kubis added.
Mr. Kubis informing the participants of the press conference said that the UN is ready to provide technical assistance to the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), and will be starting its working soon.
The UN representative assured that the Afghan security and political transition will not be ignored by the international community and all assistance would be providing for its success.
