YEREVAN SAYS "NO" TO INDEPENDENT TURKISH ELECTION OBSERVERS WORKING WITH AGIT
Hurriyet, Turkey
May 7 2007
With Armenian elections scheduled to take place next Saturday,
independent Turkish observers working with the European Security and
Cooperation Group (AGIT) met with resistance from Yerevan authorities,
who refused to allow Turkish AGIT observers to come and watch election
proceedings.
With Yerevan’s last minute "veto" of the independent Turkish AGIT
observers, the team flew back from Istanbul to Ankara, after having
been about to catch a flight from Istanbul to Yerevan. AGIT is an
international organization which is regularly involved in observing
elections proceedings. The Turkish observers learned of the Yerevan
administration’s veto of their arrival while in the Istanbul airport.