He said Britain welcomed the NTC's pledge to form an inclusive transitional government before democratic elections.
Interestingly, in Papua New Guinea, there are democratic elections and the government almost always loses the election.
Kostunica was elected president last October in democratic elections, but then-President Slobodan Milosevic refused to leave office.
Three years later, he stood in DR Congo's first democratic elections, losing a run-off against President Joseph Kabila.
This year Cape Town had to prepare for its biggest party since the first democratic elections of 1994.
"It's natural for the governing majority to make use of the authority it received in democratic elections, " he said.
He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in democratic elections in 1994.
After decades of military rule, Mali held its first democratic elections in 1992.
Mali held its first democratic elections in 1992, after decades of military rule.
Last month, UN-backed reconciliation talks began aimed at drafting a new constitution and preparing for full democratic elections in February 2014.
Earlier this month, UN-backed reconciliation talks began in Yemen aimed at drafting a new constitution and preparing for full democratic elections next February.
On Wednesday, the head of the EU observer mission, Alojz Peterle, said Kenya had so far demonstrated "an impressive commitment to democratic elections".
It was formed on the eve of democratic elections at around the same time as its better-known sister settlement, Orania, in the Northern Cape.
Last month, as Venezuelans once again demonstrated their determination to solve differences through that most peaceful means, democratic elections, turnout was unprecedented, at 81%.
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Mr Nasheed, who defeated Mr Gayoon in the country's first democratic elections, says charges against him relating to alleged abuse of power are politically motivated.
We both welcomed the democratic elections in Tunisia and in Morocco.
Only then will the government be able to proceed with drafting a constitution and eventually hold Libya's first democratic elections in its modern history, our correspondent says.
Morsy, who came to power in June after the country's first democratic elections, helped broker an end to the November conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza.
The democratic elections in mid-2011 saw Vejjajiva defeated at the polls and Yingluck Shinawatra -- sister of the deposed Thaksin Shinawatra -- elected as the country's first female prime minister.
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who mediated the peace deal, had expressed the hope that they would join the power-sharing arrangement which leads to democratic elections in three years time.
Interventions followed to illustrate the role of broadband in access to medical care in remote areas, for the transparency of democratic elections, participation in social life and access to banking services.
"And although the election process is not over yet, we can already say that Kenya can be credited with demonstrating an impressive commitment to democratic elections, " chief EU observer Alojz Peterle.
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Ms. NINO BURJANADZE (Speaker of the Parliament, Georgia): We did this to prove to everybody, to our people and to international communities, that we are really very serious about democracy, about democratic elections.
As the movement's allies in the Muslim Brotherhood have gained ground across the region in democratic elections following the Arab Spring, some within Hamas say it too should renounce violence and adopt a more moderate approach.
After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, he chaired the Truth and Reconciliation commission - the body set up to investigate apartheid-era crimes - and occasionally broke down in tears at some of the horrific testimony.
After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 Johannesburg experienced a new, unofficial apartheid as businesses moved away from downtown to the city's wealthier, whiter, northern suburbs, leaving the city center a shadow of its once dynamic self.
In the '90s, with the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, Mahlasela landed recording deals that resulted in a series of albums, European and African tours, and major South African music awards.
Russia has backed a French call for a new U.N. resolution, saying this would help form a new political leadership in Iraq and the holding of democratic elections, but questions remain over whether Washington would be willing to share control over post-war Iraq.
After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.
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