ARMENIA TO SEE BEST ELECTIONS IN 2007

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 24, 2006

YEREVAN, July 24. /ARKA/. Armenia will see the best elections ever
held in 2007, Armenian Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan told
reporters. "I, as Minister of Defense and Chairman of the Council
of the Republican Party of Armenia, will be seeking this," he said.

He stressed that all the elections held in Armenia until now have been
"good" and met the international standards. "International observers
have always observed that the next elections have been better that
the previous elections," Sargsyan said. The parliamentary and
presidential elections are to be held in Armenia in 2007 and 2008
respectively. P.T.