NOTES:

1. Reference Section Title "Member States' Request for Electoral Assistance to the United Nations System", please note that Namibia (1989) and Eritrea (1993) were not Member States at the time electoral assistance was provided - Namibia became a Member State on 23 April 1990 and Eritrea became a Member State on 28 May 1993.  Kosovo, Palestine and Western Sahara are not Member States.
2. Please refer to A/49/675, Annex III for definitions of the seven different types of possible United Nations responses to requests for electoral assistance.
3. This form of assistance was previously referred to as "Follow & Report".
4. Angola: 5/1991 is the date of the signing of the Estoril Agreements.
5. Approximate date.
6. Cambodia: 10/1991 is the date of the signing of the Paris Agreement.
7. East Timor: On 5 May 1999, the Governments of Indonesia and Portugal signed an agreement under which the UN is responsible for the organization of popular consultation on the autonomy of East Timor.
8. Eastern Slavonia (Croatia): Based on Security Council Resolution 1037(1996), the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and Western Sirmioum (UNTAES) was established on 15 January 1996 with a mandate "to organize elections, assist in their conduct, and to certify the results".
9. Indonesia: Date of signature of technical assistance project by the Government and UNDP. 
10. Mozambique: Date of the signing of the General Peace Agreement.
11. Under the Plan for independence in Namibia, approved by the Security Council Resolution 435 (1978), the United Nations was mandated to supervise the elections for a Constituency Assembly.
12. Tajikistan:  Under the provisions of UNMOT’s mandate.
13. Based on Security Council Resolution 690 (1991), a United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara was established.