Maldives’ New Constitution Ratified: "President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ratified the country’s new constitution at 10:35am on Thursday, accompanied by a seven-gun salute at a ceremony in the capital.
The arrival of the new constitution follows four years’ work on a document aiming to bring key democratic reforms, and paves the way for the country’s first multi-party elections, due by October 10.
It also introduces a bill of rights and freedoms for the first time in a country with a record of human rights abuses, and lays out provisions for independent commissions over the elections period.
“We are making history…We are not doing this as an illusion for the eye, but for the benefit of the country,” Gayoom told an audience of politicians and journalists at the Dharubaaruge conference centre."
Friday, 8 August 2008
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