Armenia expects ODIHR's impartial assessment of electoral processesMarch 4, 2017 - 15:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia expects reliable and impartial assessment of electoral processes by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), president Serzh Sargsyan said Saturday, March 4. Sargsyan was meeting with the chief of the OSCE/ODIHR Jan Petersen in Yerevan to discuss the upcoming elections to the National Assembly. He said the country attaches great importance to the activity of monitoring missions before and during the parliamentary elections. “We consistently study the remarks and assessment of monitoring missions, trying to implement the proposals they make,” Sargsyan said, citing the adoption of Armenia’s Electoral Code as a result of cooperation with various parties. The president said that Armenia’s authorities are ready to collaborate with all the missions, including the OSCE/ODIHR, to organize elections in line with international standards. He added that the country expects the ODIHR mission to present reliable and impartial assessment of electoral processes in Armenia. Petersen said, in turn, that the mission is monitoring Armenian elections for the 11th time this year, hailing cooperation with the authorities, political parties and other groups. The OSCE/ODIHR on February 20 launched its observation mission for the Armenian parliamentary elections, slated for April 2. 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 | 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. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |