Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 12 2007

`We should prove today that we are not inferior to any member-state
of the Council of Europe’, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament stated

Yerevan, May 12. /Mediamax/. The Chairman of the Armenian National
Assembly (NA) Tigran Torosian stated in Yerevan today that the
elections in process in the country today `are not only a test of
democracy, but also a test of our worth’.

Mediamax reports that the Speaker expressed hope that `the
determining hours left before the end of the voting process, will
give opportunity to confirm the worth of our people’. According to
him, `both our country and our people do not deserve negative
assessments, and we, having a 16-year-old independent state, should
prove today that we are not inferior to any member-state of the
Council of Europe’.

Commenting on the statement of oppositional forces on violations and
falsifications of the elections already during the pre-election
period, the NA Chairman stated that talking about the quality of the
elections will be possible only after their conclusion.

Talking about the possible post-election developments in Armenia,
Tigran Torosian reminded that the disturbances in France, which
followed the second round of presidential elections, were not related
to the quality of the very elections.–0–