ALEKSANDER ISKANDARIAN: ASSESSMENT OF THE ELECTIONS IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR THE POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE COUNTRY

ArmRadio.am
22.05.2007 18:00

Political scientist, Director of the Caucasian Media Institute
Aleksander Iskandarian stated today that from the point of view of
the international community, the parliamentary elections in Armenia
were "a serious step in the direction of electoral development,"
Mediamax reports.

The political scientist noted that the international observers gave
a quite high assessment to the elections in Armenia, and this is
of serious importance for the formation of a positive image of the
country. Aleksander Iskandarian noted that the given assessment was
"especially jealously perceived by Azerbaijan."

According to the political scientist, "it would be possible to cheat
the international observers if they were assessing the political
culture of Armenia, but they were assessing the technologies of the
electoral process, and they were not cheated from this point of view."

Aleksander Iskandarian also stressed that "a serious step in the
direction of development of the political system became the fact that
the voting process of Armenian electors for the first time was not
of mass emotional character, but of a rational one."