{"id":7473,"date":"2012-07-16T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2012-07-16T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:57:09","slug":"maldives-commits-to-an-impartial-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2012\/07\/maldives-commits-to-an-impartial-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives commits to an impartial investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government of Maldives has com\u00admitted to strengthening the Commission of National Inquiry, under the guidance of the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Maldives, Sir Donald McKinnon. The commission was estab\u00adlished on 15 May to undertake an inde\u00adpendent and impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding the trans\u00adfer of power in Maldives in February.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In accordance with the agreement, the commission will be headed by a retired senior judge from Singapore and expert advisors from the United Nations and the Commonwealth will be available to provide support. Three of the original members remain while former Presi\u00addent Mohamed Nasheed has been able to nominate his own representative to serve on the committee.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

“Now that we have agreement on the reconstituted commission, I look forward to it starting its work and carrying out its important mandate,” said Sir Donald. I hope also that with its enhanced terms of reference and revised composition, the commission will be a more broadly ac\u00adceptable mechanism and will allow the country to move forward.”<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

While the former president has agreed to accept the commission’s in\u00advestigation and ruling, he continues to urge world leaders to acknowledge that he was ousted in a coup and is pressing for presidential elections to be held this year. The current president, Moham\u00admed Waheed Hassan, maintains that the earliest elections can be held under the Maldivian constitution is July 2013.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Nasheed was forced to resign on 7 February under pressure from police and military forces with ties to long-serving ex-President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled Maldives for 30 years before Nasheed’s election in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government of Maldives has com\u00admitted to strengthening the Commission of National Inquiry, under the guidance of the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Maldives, Sir Donald McKinnon. The commission was estab\u00adlished on 15 May to undertake an inde\u00adpendent and impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding the trans\u00adfer of power in Maldives in February. In accordance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}