TIGRAN TOROSIAN: THE SKY NOT TO FALL DOWN IN CASE OF UNSUCCESSFULL
ELECTIONS BUT THE COUNTRY TO MISS A VERY IMPORTANT POSSIBILITY FOR ITS
DEVELOPMENT

YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. After officially making public soon
the date of holding the parliamentary elections of Armenia, a
consultation will be held at the country President’s Office on the
occasion of inviting international observers. RA National Assembly
Speaker Tigran Torosian stated about it at the January 29 press
conference, responding the journalists’ question. In his words, the
list of organizations to be invited will be defined and according to
it, the state structures to be invited will be decided.

At the journalists’ request touching upon the demand of holding the
coming elections in correspondence with the international standards,
T.Torosian again attached importance to the necessity of parties’
displaying political will. In his opinion, the parties must
completely understand that the coming elections have an exclusive
meaning for Armenia. In his words, "the sky will not fall down" in the
case of unsuccessful elections, but Armenia will miss a too important
possibility for its development. In the speaker’s words, he himself is
sure that bad process of elections does not arise from interests of
any political forces, irrespective of the fact if that force is in the
opposition or among the authorities. He expressed a hope that
political forces will correctly estimate the situation and see
possibility of cooperation for the sake of good elections.

The NA Speaker mentioned on this occasion that during the meeting with
Christian Shtrohal, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights, who visited Yerevan recently, he
proposed to representatives of the NA factions to create a working
group which will make an attempt to coordinate work with the
observation missions, Central Electoral Commission, authorities. In
the case of possible alarms, the mentioned group will attempt to
initiate steps to correct the noticed faults. T.Torosian stated that a
preliminary agreement on cooperation with some of the factions heads
has already been reached, and the prospect of creation of the group
will be finally defined during the coming 10 days.