UN hails Zim polls Mr Ban Ki-moon
Mr Ban Ki-moon

Mr Ban Ki-moon

Herald Reporters
The United Nations has hailed Zimbabwe for successfully holding an orderly and peaceful election urging the people to remain calm during the vote counting and throughout the completion of the electoral process. UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon, in a statement, commended the people of Zimbabwe for a “broadly peaceful election day and for exercising their democratic rights.”

The statement came at the time several observer missions like the Sadc, AU, Comesa, Chinese oberver team and many others had endorsed the July 31 election as peaceful, free and fair.

Mr Ki-moon recalled the commitment made by President Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and other political parties to ensure peaceful elections calling on them to send clear messages of calm to their supporters.

UN urged those political parties and individuals who have concerns or objections to the election to pursue them through the the established legal channels without violence.

“These concerns should then be considered transparently and fairly. The most important thing is that the will of the people of Zimbabwe is respected,” read the statement.

The UN chief also encouraged the country’s leadership to govern responsibly and inclusively.

He also urged the leadership to pursue policies and reforms that could serve to deepen democratic governance and also spur economic recovery that would benefit all Zimbabweans.

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, at a press roundtable held in Washington on Thursday, said IMF was closely following the Zimbabwean elections and that it was too early for it to comment.

“I think it’s a bit early on, because we have not seen the results yet, we don’t know what the regularity or irregularities have been, so I think we don’t want to jump to conclusions before anything is revisited,” she said.

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