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“Years back, observing was haphazard—groups would go in and come out quickly,” says Les Campbell, the National Democratic Institute’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.
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In frame of the official visit to the United States of America, the Parliament Speaker of Kosova, Jakup Krasniqi and the accompanying delegation, was welcomed at a meeting with the President of the National Democratic Institute, Ken Wollack.
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More than 35 political entities taking part in the upcoming July 7 elections agreed on the basic code of conduct in a conference in Tripoli on Sunday. The conference was hosted by United Nations in coordination with the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
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June 8, 2012 marked the 30th anniversary of one of President Ronald Reagan's hallmark foreign policy speeches, the Address at Westminster to members of the British Parliament.
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Libyans believe that the success of last year’s revolution is being compromised by poor security, weakness in the rule of law and the slow pace of transition, according to a new report.
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Morocco's brand-new "Parallel Youth Government" is bringing young people together to lead what they are calling the "battle for reform".
The minister in charge of relations with Parliament and civil society, Lahbib Choubani, described the initiative from the Moroccan Youth Forum is a "unique" experiment in the Arab world.
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Keizer Mayor Lore Christopher recently returned from a trip to Pristina, Kosovo. But it wasn’t on some international trade mission. (And the city didn’t pay for her trip.)
She was there in her role as human resources director for the Oregon State Legislature. The relatively new government in Kosovo is, in many ways, still building from the ground up.
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In the 2010 parliamentary elections in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his State of Law Coalition emerged as the head of government over rival Ayad Allawi and the Iraqiyya Party, which had won the election by a slim majority of two seats.
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The electoral processes in Angola are vital instruments for consolidation of peace, national reconciliation and the establishment of a democratic and law abiding State.
This was said by the former chairman of Bar, Inglês Pinto, during a conference on "the path of the 2012 general elections", running from 5-6 June.
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Egypt’s trial of employees of pro-democracy groups accused of illegally receiving foreign funds has been postponed to next month to hear government officials testify, and it will be closed to the media, one of the defendants said Tuesday.