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Article: Central America peace process progresses.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- June 1, 1990
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The Central American peace process progressed in February and March with the successful conclusion of UN-supervised elections in Nicaragua and steps to demobilize the Nicaraguan resistance in that country with assistance from an expanded mandate for the UN Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA).
More than 1.5 million Nicaraguans went to the polls on Sunday, 25 February, in the first UN-monitored elections in an independent country.
Voting took place without intimidation or violence" and was evaluated as "free and fair" by ONUVEN-the UN Observer Mission to verify the electoral process in Nicaragua-said Secretary-General javier Perez de Cuellar. ONUVEN ...