British Embassy neutral on presidential raceFebruary 14, 2008 - 16:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The British Embassy in Yerevan rejects the allegations in a report in the "Hayots Ashkhar" daily on 13 February titled "British Embassy in the role of a courier?", that an Embassy driver disseminated "propaganda material" for the election campaign of an Armenian presidential candidate. "There is no basis for this accusation. The UK Government strongly supports the efforts of the Armenian Government to conduct democratic and transparent elections in Armenia, and maintains strict impartiality in the contest," reads a statement issued by the Embassy. "The British Embassy in Yerevan has supported a public awareness project against election bribery. This project is publishing several thousand leaflets encouraging Armenian voters to refuse election bribery, in support of the efforts of the Armenian authorities to promote a free and fair contest on February 19. The leaflets have been distributed to NGOs and to all presidential candidates' campaign offices that have expressed an interest in distributing them. The Embassy driver was assisting the Embassy in delivering these leaflets. The leaflets have been delivered to "It's Your Choice", "Center for Community Dialogue and Initiatives", "Hakastver", and "Armedia" NGOs, as well as the election campaign headquarters of the presidential candidates Aram Harutyunyan, Arman Melikyan, Artashes Geghamyan, Arthur Baghdassaryan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Tigran Karapetyan, Vahan Hovhannisyan and Vazgen Manukyan," it says. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. 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. Partner news | Yeremyan Projects opens state-of-the-art dairy production plant Yeremyan Projects officially launched the Yeremyan Products state-of-the-art milk processing plant in Yerevan on May 24. Azerbaijan's defense spending set to increase by 11% Azerbaijan's spending on defense and national security will increase by 11%, according to a fresh bill. Armenian PM’s helicopter makes emergency landing in Vanadzor The helicopter transporting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made an emergency landing in Vanadzor. Lavrov says envoys “periodically” summoned for consultations Sergei Lavrov has commented Moscow’s summoning of Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin. |