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UN envoy visits polling station at Kabul school
KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city. Pictures of the SRSG at the polling station During the visit, Mr Eide said: “I am pleased to see that so far the elections have been going quite well. I see…
High number of women turnout in Bamyan
20 August 2009 - 2 pm: Women have been eagerly lining up at polling centres in Bamyan to cast their vote in the presidential and provincial council elections. Agha Gul, 60, a house wife was among the women voters at the Sayed Abad Girl’s High School polling centre waiting for her turn to vote. “I am…
Women vote in Jalalabad
20 August 2009 - 3:06 pm: Women have been voting at two female polling centres in Jalalabad – the Bibi Zainab High School and the Women’s Affairs Department. View more than 100 photos from today
Herat: Peace and excitement while the population votes
20 August 2009 - 4:04 pm: Early morning, voters were queuing up in front of polling centres, waiting to be allowed in to cast their votes. In most centres, the polling staff voted first, before opening the polling stations and allowing the voters in. Mushgam Qasemi, the polling station manager at…
Audio from the day
20 August 2009 - 4:22 pm: Jamil Danish from UNAMA Radio has been on the streets of Kabul today. Listen to his interviews here. UNAMA Radio: - - - -
Active observation by political agents
20 August 2009 - 5:21 pm: Political party agents and candidates in Bamyan carried out an active observation process today. “A total of 4,725 candidates and political party agents have been accredited to monitor the election in Bamyan,” said Ali Yawar Aliyar, the External Relations Officer of the…
Polls close peacefully in Nangarhar
20 August 2009 - 5:38 pm: Early indications suggest an encouraging turnout in Nangarhar though some polling centres saw a low turnout – as low as about 170 in one of the polling centres at the Medical Faculty School in Jalalabad. Election staff have attributed the low turnout to “too many centres”…
UN's Special Representative briefs media
20 August 2009 - 5:49 pm: The UN’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide has just finished briefing the media on the end of Elections Day 2009. For more photos from the day click here. UN SRSG KAI EIDE: Welcome everybody. This is not really a press conference, but I want to give some…
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UN envoy: 2009 elections – important achievement for Afghans
KABUL - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has said that holding the elections was a big achievement for Afghans. The deteriorating security situation across the country had been considered the major obstacle for holding free and fair elections and some people were predicting that…
Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
NEW YORK - The Secretary-General would like to congratulate the women and men of Afghanistan on today’s Presidential and Provincial Council elections. He notes that, by exercising their Constitutional right to vote, the Afghan people have demonstrated again their desire for stability and development…
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UN multimedia on Election Day 2009
KABUL - Throughout the day UNAMA staff across the country reported on the elections as millions of Afghans voted. Click below for a selection of photos and radio and TV reports.
UN officials congratulate Afghan people on largely peaceful polls
20 August 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top envoy to Afghanistan have congratulated the people of the fledgling democracy on today’s presidential and provincial council elections, and paid tribute to all those who made the largely peaceful polls possible. “By exercising their…