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Afghanistan: Security Council welcomes elections

22 September 2005 – Welcoming Sunday’s legislative elections in Afghanistan, the Security Council today called on all sides to continue to work constructively toward the early establishment of a new Parliament.

In a press statement issued following a briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi on the situation in Afghanistan, the Council called the parliamentary (Wolesi Jirga) and provincial council elections on 18 September, “the final milestone of the Bonn Process,” the accord agreed to at the international conference in Germany in 2001 that set up the country’s transitional phase after the ouster of the Taliban regime.

“The members of the Security Council hope that the ballot counting and certification process will be conducted peacefully in the coming weeks,” the statement said.

Through the statement, the Council also commended the work of the group that oversaw the polling, the Joint Electoral Management Body, all other international and domestic participants, as well as the people of the country for their “determination to rebuilding their state through a democratic process.”