Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 13 2007

During the parliamentary elections in Armenia, over 300 observers
from OSCE visited 1200 polling stations

Yerevan, May 13. /Mediamax/. Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Observation
Mission Boris Frlec stated in Yerevan today that during the
parliamentary elections in Armenia on May 12, over 300 observers of
the organization visited 1200 polling stations from the total number
of 1923.

Mediamax reports that answering the questions of the journalists,
Boris Frlec expressed disagreement to the statement that the report
of the observers from OSCE on the results of the elections is of more
auspicious nature as compared to the intermediate reports. He urged
to get familiar to the preliminary conclusion of the mission, spread
today, and to make sure that all the pointed out shortcomings were
reflected in it.

Answering the question of a journalist on whether the observers
consider the elections, which took place in Armenia, `free and fair’,
the OSCE Special Coordinator for elections in Armenia, the
Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Tone Tingsgaard
stated that `we are not authorized to use such wording’.

`In our report we noted that the parliamentary elections demonstrated
improvement as compared to the previous elections and on the whole
were held in accordance with the international commitments of
Armenia’, the Special Coordinator of OSCE stated.–0–