ABIDJAN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) has completed the distribution of the provisional electoral lists to all centers across the country in preparation for the eminent polls, a UN source said.

"The mission has completed the distribution of the electoral lists; on Nov. 13, all lists had been deposited to the regional or communal electoral commission centers," ONUCI spokesman Hamadoun Toure told a press conference on Thursday.

Having started on Nov. 11, the operation mobilized "several means especially an aircraft, three helicopters and 300 vehicles," Toure said, adding that "more than 400 civilians and military personnel were deployed to cover more than 206 routes."

"ONUCI is worried about the technical and logistical delays, the display of the electoral lists, and would therefore hope that the display which is anxiously being waited for by the population is organized by the independent electoral commission (CEI)," the spokesman added.

Even though consultations are going on with the introduction of the new communication and information technologies including mobile and fixed telephone and Internet for about a week now, the provisional electoral list should be publicly displayed in order to begin resolving the contentious electoral issues.

About 5.3 million Ivorians have been registered on the electoral list with slightly above a million people "who were negatively cross checked" and still waiting for the determination of their status.

The electoral contentions will be sorted out in 38 days before the publication of the final electoral list, the distribution of the voter cards, the national identity cards and the opening of the campaign for the presidential election which has been waited for since 2005.

Because of accumulated delays in the execution of the timetable, the election which was initially fixed for Nov. 29 will have "slight change" to a date likely to be known in the coming week, officials said.