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BISSAU. — China will provide support for the organisation of Guinea Bissau’s general elections scheduled for November 24, the Chinese ambassador to Bissau, Wang Hua, has said.Without stating the exact amount that will be disbursed, the diplomat, who was coming from a meeting with the chairman of the National Electoral Commission, Augusto Mendes, reaffirmed on Monday the “determination of the Chinese people to support Guinea Bissau’s democratic and development process.”
He said his meeting with Mendes enabled him to understand the level of preparedness for the forthcoming presidential and legislative elections.
Guinea Bissau’s electoral commission has indicated that it will require US$7,35 million to organise the forthcoming elections.
However, the organ in charge of registering voters for the next elections has indicated that it will require at least US$14 million to carry out its work.
Until now, the traditional partners who normally support Guinea Bissau’s electoral process, especially the European Union, the United Nations and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), have not released funds for the elections.
Speaking in June this year, the UN special representative Jose Ramos Horta announced that the organisation would disburse the remaining 3 million euros which was supposed to have been spent on the aborted 2012 presidential elections. — Xinhua.
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