{"id":28293,"date":"2016-09-03T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-congo-un-chief-notes-launch-of-national\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T05:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T05:35:45","slug":"dr-congo-un-chief-notes-launch-of-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-congo-un-chief-notes-launch-of-national\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo: UN chief notes launch of national dialogue towards elections, urges more inclusive process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{African Union facilitator Edem Kodjo (left) addresses the meeting of the preparatory committee to the national dialogue in the Democratic Repiblic of the Congo (DRC). } <\/p>\n<p>2 September 2016 \u2013 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has taken note of yesterday&#8217;s launch of the national dialogue in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urged more inclusive process towards elections, his spokesman said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe remains convinced that only an inclusive political dialogue will help pave the way towards peaceful and credible elections, in accordance with Security Council Resolution 2277 (2016),\u201d Mr. Ban&#8217;s spokesman added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General urged the political groups that have not yet joined the dialogue process to \u201cplay a constructive role which contributes to the holding of timely and credible elections,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Secretary-General encouraged the Government to continue confidence-building measures and to uphold the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ban also urged all actors to refrain from any action that could increase tensions or lead to violence, the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14758 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/08-23-2016drcongo.jpg\" alt=\"African Union facilitator Edem Kodjo (left) addresses the meeting of the preparatory committee to the national dialogue in the Democratic Repiblic of the Congo (DRC). \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{African Union facilitator Edem Kodjo (left) addresses the meeting of the preparatory committee to the national dialogue in the Democratic Repiblic of the Congo (DRC). } 2 September 2016 \u2013 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has taken note of yesterday&#8217;s launch of the national dialogue in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2611],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-un-news-centre"],"bylines":[{"id":2611,"name":"UN News Centre","slug":"un-news-centre","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2611,"name":"UN News Centre","slug":"un-news-centre","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}