Legislative elections were held on 4 July and Senate elections on 29 July.

However, the democratic elections were held in a persistently unstable security environment.

Elections for ad litem judges at the International Tribunal were last held in 2001.

As indicated above, parliamentary elections were to have been held in the spring of 2005.

The presidential elections were successfully conducted in 2004 and the parliamentary and provincial elections are due to be held on 18 September 2005.

In that context, we welcome the parliamentary elections that were held in Afghanistan on 18 September.

Under the terms of the Bonn Agreement, national elections were to be held in June 2004.

Previous elections to the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh legislative body were held in 1995 and 2000.

A wooden ballot box in the school seemed to demonstrate that elections were held in the village.

Parliamentary elections, which were held in southern Lebanon on 5 June, were carried out in an orderly manner, with no major incidents.

Communal elections were held on 3 June 2005, with over 70 per cent of the registered voters voting for municipal councillors.

The 2005 parliamentary elections in Nagorno Karabakh were the first held under a new electoral code, which introduced numerous improvements to the procedures in force during previous presidential, parliamentary and local elections.

Noting also that general elections were held on 3 March 2000, resulting in a new coalition government in the House of Assembly,

Noting also the functioning of a democratic process in Montserrat and that general elections were held in the Territory in November 1996,

Ethiopia's general elections were held on 15 May and the electoral process was described as generally stable and peaceful throughout the country.

UNIFEM also worked with women's organizations and partners to support women during the elections that were held in March 2004 in Rwanda.

For the first time since 1988, on 18 September 2005, parliamentary elections for the Wolesi Jirga (House of the People), the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, and provincial council elections were held.

In that regard, he invited the Committee to send a delegation to the November 2005 elections so that it could see for itself how elections were held in a microcommunity such as the Falkland Islands.

Noting the results of the general elections held in April 2003,

Without appropriate resources, peace could not be consolidated nor elections held.

Once again, Iraqis met the deadline they set for themselves and elections were held on time, despite difficulties and dangers in much of the country.

Elections are held by direct or indirect, equal and secret, universal suffrage.

Legislative elections had been held, and a presidential election was under way.

Noting that elections to the Legislative Council were held in the Territory in 2001, resulting in the assumption of office by the New People's Liberation Movement,

Speaking on behalf of the Multinational Force, the representative of the United States noted that elections were to be held no later than 31 January 2005.

The first round of the elections was held as scheduled on 11 October.

Everything must be done to ensure that the elections are held as scheduled.

It is a major achievement for Lebanon to have held elections on time.

Its main aspects concentrated on the Palestinian presidential elections held on 9 January.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has held 27 national elections in 27 years.

The percentage rose to 46.1 for the elections held on 10 October 2002.

During the reporting period, local elections were successfully held in the eastern districts of Baucau, Lautem and Manatuto in two phases, on 17 and 23 March respectively.

Palestinian voters in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip took part in the first ever municipal elections, the first of which were held in December 2004.

We held municipal elections and have begun preparations for legislative elections, which will be held early next year, with a view to firmly establishing the foundation for pluralism, democracy and the peaceful transfer of authority.

The Peace Agreement required the elections to be held no later than October 2005.

Despite some violence, which resulted in revoting in some 31 polling stations, mainly in the Provinces of Bubanza and Bujumbura Rural, the communal elections of 3 June were held successfully and paved the way for the legislative and senatorial elections in July.

This may have consequences in the general elections to be held on 16 October 2005.

(e) In 1993, under pressure from the social movements that had flourished with the introduction of multiparty democracy, free elections were held and brought President Ange Félix Patassé to power.

Local elections, the first ever conducted by Timorese national authorities, were successfully held in the districts of Bobonaro and Oecussi in two phases, on 18 and 22 December 2004 respectively.

Municipal elections were planned for 2006 and elections to the national parliament for the following year.

In August 2005, President Abbas decreed that legislative elections would be held on 25 January 2006.

The Security Council welcomes the presidential elections of the Palestinian Authority held yesterday, 9 January 2005.

It had held regular elections which had been deemed free and fair by the international community.

In that regard, let me recall that in only 27 of the 59 elections held in the Assembly to fill non permanent seats were all seats filled in a single round.

Elections shall be held by secret ballot, unless the Committee decides otherwise in the case of elections to fill a place for which there is only one candidate.