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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10362
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/nigeria

EU welcomes relative calm of presidential elections, with just one flat note

Brussels, 19/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU, which is observing the presidential elections in Nigeria, has welcomed the relative calm which generally accompanied the ballot of 16 April, but has spoken out against attempts to destabilise the process. The day before, whilst the results in so far indicated that the winner would be the outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan, from the first round, an attack left eight people dead.

In a declaration published on Monday 18 April, Catherine Ashton,...

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