A draft statement attributable to the spokesperson for the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon after the September 8 run-off presidential elections in Sierra Leone notes that, “the Secretary-General is pleased to note that the second round of the presidential election in Sierra Leone took place… in a generally orderly and peaceful atmosphere, in spite of the tensions and violence that marred the campaign period.”
The statement continues: “the Secretary-General urges the political parties and people of Sierra Leone to exercise restraint as counting of the ballots proceeds and to resolve all arising disputes through the existing legal channels.”