UN involvement in referendum only if national govt asks: Spokesperson

The UN will get involved in a referendum only at the request of a national government, according to the world organisation’s spokesperson.

Asked at the Friday briefing about West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee’s call for a UN-conducted referendum on citizenship issues, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the “standard policy for UN involvement in any electoral effort, any referendum, is for request from a national government; that is our standard policy.”

He said that it was not specific to Banerjee’s call, but a statement of the standard by which the UN operates.

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