Legislative elections had been held, and a presidential election was under way.

The presidential elections were successfully conducted in 2004 and the parliamentary and provincial elections are due to be held on 18 September 2005.

Elections were held in January 1995 the next elections are scheduled for 1999.

Local elections had already occurred in Nigeria and elections to state government would be held in December 1997.

Further meetings have taken place, and more will be held in the future.

They held 48 meetings.

A number of regional conferences had been held.

5. Two panels had been held.

The ITF has met three times.

Local elections have now been held in 11 of Timor Leste's 13 districts, and preparations have begun for the final round to be held in the districts of Dili and Liquica in late September 2005.

The second Legislative Council Election was held on 10 September 2000.

The written test was held on 22 February 2005.

4. The Institute holds weekly staff meetings, monthly research meetings and, since November 1997, has carried out two strategic planning meetings.

It has been three years since Monterrey.

5. Examples of completed and ongoing projects

Arrangements have been made for parallel meetings during the session.

So far the working group has held 11 sessions.

The C festivals discussed in the initial report are no longer held.

A seminar on children s rights was held in November 1997.

Town hall meetings, as well as consultation with staff and management, have been organized and briefing sessions with Member States have taken place.

In accordance with that programme, elections to local councils had already taken place and preparations for elections to the national legislature were under way.

With regard to Lebanon, the Under Secretary General recalled that the elections had been held on time.

Consequently, my country has started participating in regular meetings held in Paris.

We held municipal elections and have begun preparations for legislative elections, which will be held early next year, with a view to firmly establishing the foundation for pluralism, democracy and the peaceful transfer of authority.

The question of holding legislative and local elections in November 1998, as required by the electoral law of 1995, has now become moot.

The nine Commission members were appointed by President Karzai in an ethnically balanced proportion.

Elections were held for the first time in 1989 to form Regional Assemblies, but they have now been disbanded.

By the end of August, a new Government will have been put in place as a result of the electoral process to date, commune elections have been held.

The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, vested with exclusive jurisdiction for the oversight, organization and conduct of the transitional elections, determined that there were no technical reasons for not proceeding as scheduled.

The mission noted that the time frame for the holding of the elections had become a serious bone of contention among the Burundian political actors.

A short course for senior police officers has been undertaken in Sector IV.

16 Subsequently it was reported that the first round of talks was held in December 2004.

Forums on women in the media have also been held.

An Advisory Board has been put in place and four meetings have been organized.

As the President himself announced at the time of his election, the Government plans to complete the process of democratization and openness started by the late President it will make sure that legislative and local elections are held and will then turn, as soon as possible, to organizing the Presidential elections.

Those measures were applied in the 2000 election.

An appropriate follow up meeting is already envisaged to take place later in 1998, in which OIC is expected to take part.

52. The Law concerning the referendum on the constitution, which is to take place in February, was also approved.

25. However, there had been some progress following the presidential election of the previous summer and the resulting change of Government.

The Office for Gender Equality had already launched a number of activities to promote gender equality in local elections scheduled for April.

Hamilton, the capital, and St. George's are the two main towns.

All the work already undertaken will be discussed later with the Electoral Commission.

Seventy two per cent of the estimated electorate in Kasai Oriental had registered to vote.

It is understood that the Conference of the Parties agreed that the Working Group would elect its own chair.

You have already received, from the secretariat, an invitation to bilateral talks.