But will the political transition ultimately lead to democracy?

Where these conditions exist, a transition to democracy can succeed where they are missing, the chances as in Russia for a successful transition to a consolidated democracy are slim.

Russia s transition to democracy began at almost the same time as ours.

Most Western leaders think naturally in terms of a transition to democracy.

Australia will continue to support Afghanistan's transition from conflict to peace and democracy.

In Moldova, a real transition to democracy has been underway for some time.

This is why China cannot shelve the problem of its transition to democracy.

In Turkey, the transition to democracy led the Islamist Justice and Development Party to power.

While the referendum and the elections are necessary instruments in Iraq's transition to democracy, they are only staging posts along an evolving transition.

The transition to democracy promised freedom and prosperity to all who had suffered in communism s stranglehold.

The Spanish transition to democracy () was when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a democracy in the form of a constitutional monarchy.

The November 21 referendum marks another pivotal step towards consolidating Kenya s transition to a real democracy.

The wider world has still not fully appreciated South Africa s reasonably peaceful transition from repression to democracy.

Moreover, change must occur without violence, and a peaceful transition to a pluralist democracy should be ensured.

The transition from autocracy to democracy in the Middle East is likely to be bumpy and unstable, at best.

After independence Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy.

We recognize that the transition we are going through from dictatorship to democracy is fraught with many challenges.

(g) Undertake to refrain from any kind of action that could lead to violence or disrupt the transition to democracy

The political system is derived from the 1990 Constitution of Benin and the subsequent transition to democracy in 1991.

I was of the generation in my country that lived through the transition from dictatorship to democracy four decades ago.

Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary, for example, succeeded in navigating a successful transition to democracy and a functioning market economy.

As we have seen time and again, the transition to democracy is delicate and difficult and can suffer severe setbacks.

WASHINGTON, DC Hosni Mubarak s resignation as President of Egypt marks the beginning of an important stage in that country s transition to a new political system. But will the political transition ultimately lead to democracy?

South Africa s largely peaceful transition to a multi racial democracy in the early 1990 s was a further advance for rights.

Modern democracy activism Many pro democracy supporters noted that China has successfully overcome much of the challenges to democracy in China faced during the transition from a communist to a capitalist economy so there is no longer a need for prolonged political repression.

One obvious implication of modern economic history is that it's quite hard to transition to democracy before you've established secure private property rights.

Even in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, where the transition to democracy is more advanced, political uncertainty has tended to plague economic achievements.

After decades of autocracy, this vast archipelago of a country just concluded a presidential election that has solidified its transition to democracy.

Those elections were a first step on the path in Iraq's transition to democracy, as outlined in Security Council resolution 1546 (2004).

The Secretary General accepts that Myanmar faces complex and difficult challenges in its transition to democracy and its quest for national reconciliation.

Taking note also of the road map for the transition to democracy announced by the Prime Minister of Myanmar on 30 August 2003,

Libya s Transition to Transition

Despite the great strides that Burma has made in the last two years, the specter of ethnic conflict continues to haunt the transition to democracy.

The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy.

Might it be possible for China to establish limits on arbitrary executive power and strengthen creditor rights sufficiently without undertaking a full fledged transition to democracy?

In recent years, the Indonesian military has provided a model for other Third World military forces on how to accept a transition to a full democracy.

Of course, it is unrealistic and naïve to expect that the changes now underway in Libya will result in a rapid transition to European style democracy.

It should instead focus on financial assistance that blunts Egyptians frustrations and that contributes to building the institutions that will facilitate the transition toward democracy.

National reconciliation Presiding over the transition from apartheid minority rule to a multicultural democracy, Mandela saw national reconciliation as the primary task of his presidency.

A transition to democracy in the old revolutionary Arab regimes will not correspond to a Western model, nor can it be imposed by American F 16 s.

(b) To immediately and unconditionally release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, other leaders of the National League for Democracy and members of the National League for Democracy detained on or after 30 May 2003 and to allow them to play a full role in bringing about national reconciliation and the transition towards democracy

As a country in transition with a young democracy, Georgia was proud of its achievements but also very aware of its challenges.

But the record of military led transitions elsewhere has been poor democracy may be proclaimed to be the coup s raison d être, but the transition stops there.

Argentina s trial of the generals was a successful ritual in the painstaking transition from military junta to democracy, but the experience ended with weeping self doubt.

Mexico s transition to democracy between 1977 2000 was aided by a series of constitutional reforms that contributed to the emergence of the widely credible Federal Election Institute (IFE).