CONDOLEEZZA RICE: ARMENIA SHOULD KEEP STRENGTHENING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.03.2006 23:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Armenia should keep strengthening democratic
reforms. Local and foreign observers expressed their discontent with
the referendum on the Constitution. The Armenian Government recognized
the problems available and had pledged to improve the situation at
the election in 2007 and 2008,” US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice
stated in a signing ceremony of a Compact between the Millennium
Challenge Corporation and Armenia in Washington March 27. In his turn
Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian stated Armenian authorities make steps to
organize elections meeting international standards. “Register of votes
are checked, changes are introduced in the electoral legislation,”
the Armenian FM assured. The election in 2007 and 2008 will be an
examination on democracy in Armenia, he added, reports RFE/RL.