HEAD of OSCE PA ELECTION OBSERVATION TEAM TO VISIT RA

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[03:57 pm] 10 April, 2007

COPENHAGEN, 10 April 2007 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President
Tone Tingsgaard will visit Yerevan on 12-13 April as a part of
the Assembly’s observation of the 12 May parliamentary elections in
Armenia. Mrs. Tingsgaard, a Member of Parliament from Sweden, has been
appointed to lead the international delegation of parliamentarians
from the OSCE PA.

The pre-election visit will enable the OSCE PA team to gather
information regarding the ongoing campaign. In Yerevan, Mrs. Tingsgaard
will meet with representatives of political parties, the Central
Election Commission, the National Assembly, the long-term observer
mission deployed by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights, and other observer groups.

Mrs. Tingsgaard, who has extensive experience monitoring elections in
the OSCE area, will return to Armenia in May to lead the delegation
of OSCE parliamentarians that will be deployed across the country.

Since 1993, the OSCE PA has deployed more than 2300 parliamentarians
to observe elections across the OSCE region.