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KABUL - Journalists in the eastern city of Jalalabad have ruled out any possibility of large-scale post-election violence as preliminary results of last week’s presidential and provincial council elections are starting to trickle in.
NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council has welcomed the holding of Afghanistan’s “historic” presidential and provincial council elections, while condemning the actions of those who sought to disrupt the 20 August polls.
NEW YORK - 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.
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.
KABUL - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has said that holding the elections was a big achievement for Afghans.
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.
KABUL - The top candidates in Thursday's presidential elections in Afghanistan have voted early, in an effort to motivate the electorate to show up at the polls.
KABUL - Polling stations are opening across the country now. On one of Afghanistan's leading TV stations a live election show is already underway. Farhad Darya, probably Afghanistan's most popular singer, is appealing for people to vote.
20 August 2009 - 12:01 am: Afghanistan votes today in historic presidential and provincial council elections.
Elections 2009 - The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has urged Afghans to vote and called on groups threatening violence to allow their fellow Afghans to choose their future leader.