PA OSCE 65-member mission to observe Armenian parliamentary electionMay 7, 2007 - 17:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Around 65 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will serve as election observers at the 12 May parliamentary election in Armenia. As PanARMENIAN.Net came to klnow from the OSCE PA press office, headed by Swedish Parliamentarian, Ms.Tone Tingsgaard, a Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and an experienced election observer, the 65 parliamentarians come from many of the 56 OSCE member States, including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, and Austria. They will be part of a larger group of international election observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament as well as from OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has a long experience in election monitoring. Since 1993, over 2,000 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly have participated as election observers in over 75 elections over the entire OSCE region. A formal statement from the international election observers will be issued on Sunday, 13 May, the day after the election. 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 | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |