CAUCASIAN MEDIA INSTITUTE TO PRESENT REVIEW OF MONITORING METHODOLOGY FOR COVERING PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

Yerevan, February 13. ArmInfo. Caucasian Media Institute (SMI)
under support of the Council of Europe will maintain an independent
monitoring project on covering electoral campaigns in Armenia and the
review of project realization methodology, Boyana Urumova, Special
Representative of Secretary General of the Council of Europe, told
ArmInfo correspondent.

Ms. Urumova said that different activities will be held within frames
of the project. An action plan consisting of two key elements has
been worked out.

The one focuses on press related issues and abilities of Media to
accomplish its obligations – guaranteeing objective covering of
electoral campaign. The other focuses on consolidation of potential
abilities of the electoral committee to conduct the elections on
appropriate level.

She said that some activities scheduled for the pre-election campaign
have already commenced. COE supports CMI in independent monitoring of
Armenian Mass Media. The project will be re-started two weeks prior
to the elections and will last the whole period of the electoral
campaign. On the whole, the monitoring will take 2 months. Ms. Urumova
said that CMI will be partially presenting conclusions and results
on particular monitoring aspects.