El presidente de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, Mahmud Abbas, anunció ante la 70 Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas que su gobierno no seguirá respetando los acuerdos de paz de Oslo que rigen sus relaciones con Israel desde 1993.

Tras enumerar sus frustraciones con el proceso de paz con Israel el presidente de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina hizo el anuncio, en el que llamó a Israel a reconocerse como "potencia ocupante".

El AKP, el partido islamista que gobierna Turquía desde 2002, no logrará la mayoría absoluta en las elecciones anticipadas del 1 de noviembre, ya que las encuestas prevén un reparto de votos similar al de los comicios de junio, tras los que no se pudo formar Gobierno por falta de acuerdo.

El sondeo, realizado por el instituto Konda y publicado hoy por el diario "Cumhuriyet", adelanta que el AKP logrará el 41,7 por ciento de los votos, apenas un punto más que en las elecciones ordinarias de junio, cuando esta formación perdió la mayoría absoluta de que disfrutaba desde 2002.

The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced that the electoral process for the Federal National Council Elections 2015 will enter a period of electoral silence for 48 hours, starting from October 1 to October 3, on election day.

The NEC has urged all candidates and their representatives as well as the media to refrain from any form of election campaign during this period.

The presidential elections were postponed for the 29th time on Wednesday after a lack of quorum at parliament.

Speaker Nabih Berri scheduled the next session for October 21.

Following the meeting, Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb deemed the ongoing postponement of the polls as a “farce”.

He condemned linking the elections to regional developments, saying that the ongoing vacuum is an “insult” to the Lebanese people.

Amir Wasim.-

A sub-committee of the parliamentary committee on poll reforms on Tuesday suggested that laws should be amended to make violation of the code of conduct by candidates or political parties during the elections as an “offence”.

This was disclosed by chairman of the sub-committee Zahid Hamid while talking to a group of reporters after presiding over a meeting here on Tuesday.

Iftikhar A. Khan.-

To be consistent with evolving laws, and to amend for its mistakes, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has withdrawn the schedule for local government elections in the federal capital, it announced on August 28.

An ECP official told Dawn that a fresh schedule will be announced around the middle of October but the polling date of November 30 will remain unchanged. He said the ECP was also awaiting the notified rules, under which elections are to be held.

Jasmine Al Kuttab.-

Candidates at the FNC polling station at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre urged voters to pick those who have the best interest of families.

Shamma Khamis Al Hameli told Khaleej Times that her focus will be on Emirati families. She believes that a solid family is the core foundation of the future. "Family is most important," she said, adding that, "if the family is strong, the country will be strong."

An International Crisis Group report on Kyrgyzstan published on September 30, only days ahead of parliamentary elections, paints a grim portrait of the political situation and warns that the entire region could suffer from failure to adopt urgently needed reforms.  

ICG identifies persisting ethnic tensions, corruption, unchecked nationalism and the surge of political Islam, fuelled by disaffection at self-interested party clans, as key and pressing problems facing Kyrgyzstan.