Start Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Last Modified: Monday, May 4, 2020
End Date: Friday, December 31, 9999
We had an excellent and long meeting with the various party leaders getting ready for the election next year. We extended to them our encouragement for good, complete, fair and free elections, and I again reiterated the support the United States is prepared to give to that process. Each of the party leaders spoke. Quite interestingly, they also had questions for me about the way we run elections in the United States, which gave me an opportunity to give a little sermon on the Constitutional system in the United States. But I was pleased to have this opportunity to meet with these leaders. I will be following this election over the next year as they get ready for it, and as they actually conduct it, and giving technical, educational, and some financial support. Thank you.
We had an excellent and long meeting with the various party leaders getting ready for the election next year. We extended to them our encouragement for good, complete, fair and free elections, and I again reiterated the support the United States is prepared to give to that process.
Each of the party leaders spoke. Quite interestingly, they also had questions for me about the way we run elections in the United States, which gave me an opportunity to give a little sermon on the Constitutional system in the United States.
But I was pleased to have this opportunity to meet with these leaders. I will be following this election over the next year as they get ready for it, and as they actually conduct it, and giving technical, educational, and some financial support.
Thank you.
Colin Powell
Remarks to the Press
Press Remarks Following Meeting
05/23/01