New York: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon "strongly hopes" that the final round of Egypt's presidential elections will proceed in a peaceful and inclusive atmosphere.

The UN chief noted the heightened debate and concerns among Egyptians about the implications of the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision regarding the parliamentary electoral law.
The Secretary-General is following attentively Egypt’s presidential election process, which is a “very important part of the transition to greater democracy that the Egyptian people have struggled so patiently and so courageously to achieve.”