{"id":611,"date":"2022-10-24T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=611"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:31:55","slug":"uec-chairman-returns-from-south-africas-5th-general-assembly-of-association-of-world-election-bodies-a-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"UEC Chairman returns from South Africa\u2019s 5th General Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AT the invitation of Electoral Commission of South Africa and the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) South Africa, a delegation led by U Thein Soe, Chairman of the Union Election Commission (UEC), attended the 5th Gener\u00adal Assembly held in Cape Town, South Africa from 17 to 22 Octo\u00adber, and returned to Yangon by air yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UEC members U Than Tun, U Aung Saw Win, U Saw Ba Hlaing, U Aung Lwin Oo, U Ko Ko Lwin, and officials of Yangon Region Election Sub-Commis\u00adsion welcomed back the delega\u00adtion at the Yangon International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UEC Chairman and party, more than 140 represent\u00adatives from electoral organiza\u00adtions from 63 countries, South African Electoral Commission and A-WEB officials attended the General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former General Assem\u00adbly president from Indian UEC handed over the A-WEB flag to the newly assigned president from South African UEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting and confirmation for the appointment of the upcoming A-WEB vice president country and Executive Board Members were also conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, \u201cSafeguarding Elec\u00adtion Management Bodies in the Age of Global Democratic Recession\u201d was discussed with five topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good practice of de\u00admocracy in elections in different countries, action to help pro\u00admote good practices, the role of electoral management bodies in a democratic system, conditions to be able to cooperate for high progress were also discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A-WEB and attendees had a chance to observe the electoral processes supervised by elec\u00adtoral bodies, cultural heritage of South Africa and landmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 October 2022 AT the invitation of Electoral Commission of South Africa and the Association of World Election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}