November 2, 2005

Draft Resolution on Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization

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The UN General Assembly's Third Committee adopts a number of resolutions on democracy, some sponsored by democracies and some by non-democracies. This one comes from the democratic side and even the non-democratic members did not want to be seen to be voting against "the principle of periodic and genuine elections." Of course voting at the UN is not quite the same thing as voting at home.