Joint Statement by Heads of Mission in Kenya on International Support for Kenya’s 2017 Elections
By Correspondence Updated
Tue, December 20th 2016 at 16:45 GMT Ambassador Robert F.
Godec (holding a microphone) address
journalists in Nairobi during a past event. PHOTO: FILE Nairobi, Kenya –
As long-time partners, our countries support the Kenyan government and people
as they seek to realize the goals of the 2010 Constitution and Kenya’s Vision
2030.
We are committed to
helping Kenya to hold free, fair, credible, and peaceful elections in 2017, and
to provide non-partisan technical assistance to government institutions and
civil society. We do this because effective democracies depend not just
on government institutions, but on non-governmental institutions as well.
A free media and
independent civil society both have critical roles to play in democracies. To
be clear, we do not provide electoral assistance to any organization,
governmental or non-governmental, to influence the election results for any
side, political party, or candidate.
Rather, our assistance supports the Kenyan
people to independently exercise their right to vote and have their voice
heard.
The Kenyan people alone have the sovereign
right to choose their leaders, and we fully respect this right. We operate with
full transparency. Our solicitations for project proposals are, and
always have been, publicly available.
In accordance with our
bilateral agreements, we have created our electoral assistance programs in consultation
with government, political party, and civil society leaders, who identified
weaknesses in the 2013 electoral process that would benefit from international
support.
We provide our electoral assistance to
support the Kenyan people in making their choices freely in an
environment of transparency and peace.
As close friends of Kenya, our electoral
assistance is just one small part of a very much larger partnership in which we
work together every day on education, health, security, the environment, and
economic development.
This statement has been
issued by the following Heads of Mission in Kenya:
Robert F. Godec, Ambassador of the United
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