UN General Assembly
1982

undertaken, and that the same guiding hand should complete it, before proceeding to the general elections to take place at the end of the seven-year term of the presidential mandate. 19. Our Constitution, the basic code which now rules and guides the sacred destiny of my people, provides for a Council of State, a People's House of Representatives, a Court of Justice, a National Council for Economic development and Community Councils. The latter are adapted to our national situation for democratization by giving the power structure its roots in the communities, in the countryside. 20. We think we have kept our word to the international community, given in the Assembly, and are pleased to have done so before the time set in a programme drawn up in collaboration with the United Nations. Our devotion to the people, and our historic commitment to it, have enabled us to provide that people, only three years after taking power, with a democratic constitution, with all the organs and conditions required to ensure scrupulous respect of