Ban Ki-moon congratulates Iraqis on violence-free provincial elections

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United Nations, 2 February 2009: Daily Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people of Iraq for strongly exercising their right to vote in provincial elections that took place over the weekend, in an atmosphere that he called admirably free of violence.

View the entire briefing (Real Media, 59 minutes):

http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressbriefing/2009/brief090202.rm

Read the statement: 

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sgsm12082.doc.htm

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