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Continuation of Armenia-EU plan to depend on quality of elections in RA
27.03.2007 14:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The coming parliamentarian elections will become a
`litmus paper’ for determining further relations of the European Union
with Armenia, German Ambassador to Armenia Heike Renate Peitsch told
during a conference March 27 titled `Free and Fair Elections as a Base
for Democracy’. She said, the EU hopes voting in the country will be
held in accordance with the norms of OSCE’s ODIHR (Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights). `Armenia is the first
country where elections are held after signing the European
Neighborhood Policy program. We’ve fixed actions for the coming 5
years in the program, their continuation will depend on the quality of
electoral process,’ she noticed.

`The EU expects that during elections rights of citizens will be
protected, members of electoral committees will do their work on
professional level, and in case of falsifications infringers will be
punished in accordance with the law,’ the German Ambassador stressed
adding that Armenia has all chances for holding fair and transparent
elections, and in order to organize an exemplary election also
political will of authorities is needed.

Heike Renate Peitsch also noted that the international community
expects conduction of democratic elections in Armenia with positive
steps in this direction, IA Regnum reports.