Armenian parliament speaker meets OSCE observer missionFebruary 16, 2013 - 18:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamyan met Feb 16 with the head of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly election observation mission in Armenia Tonino Picula, OSCE PA President Riccardo Migliori, and OSCE PA Deputy Secretary General Tina Schoen. The upcoming presidential elections were in the focus of the discussion, with the importance to conduct free, fair and transparent polls stressed. National Assembly speaker Abrahamyan voiced confidence that OSCE PA mission will make a fair assessment of the polls, parliamentary press service reported. He noted the deployment of observer missions by leading international organizations as an essential factor for the development of democracy in the country. “Armenian authorities have the political will to conduct 2013 presidential elections in line European standards,” Hovik Abrahamyan said. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |