CE REPRESENTATIVE MENTIONS NECESSITY OF HOLDING FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. "The May 12 parliamentary elections
are unequivoccaly considered in Armenia as a unique possibility for
development of democracy." Bojana Urumova, the Special Representative
of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to Armenia stated
about it at the conference entitled "Free and Fair Elections as
Foundation-Stone of Democracy" taken place on March 27. She reminded
that holding of free and fair elections is one of the obligations
undertaken by Armenia in front of the CE. In B. Urumova’s words,
perhaps, correspondence of the coming parliamentary elections with the
European standards of free and fair elections would be a considerable
progress for Armenia. "Expectations and hopes of the international
community to see considerable results in this sense are very high,"
the CE representative mentioned. She also mentioned that the CE,
attaching importance to the elections to be held in Armenia, did a
considerable work with the corresponding instances.