OSCE/ODIHR MISSION TO OBSERVE PROCESS OF CASES TO BE SUBMITTED TO RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Noyan Tapan
May 24 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. On May 24, RA Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian received Head of monitoring mission of elections of OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador
Boris Frlec. B. Frlec presented mission’s observations of elections and
post-electoral processes. In his words, this process is evidence that
Armenia in general registered progress in the issue of organization of
elections and their holding. The mission has worked out instructions
in the direction of improving the current shortcomings and faults.

As Noyan Tapan was informed from RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, V. Oskanian attached importance to objective
evaluation of international monitoring missions to elections. The
Minister expressed confidence that the upcoming presidential elections
will be one more important step in the issue of strengthening democracy
in Armenia.

B. Frlec handed the Minister the first post-election interim report of
OSCE/ODIHR mission, by which summing up of results and examination of
complaints were observed. He reaffirmed that the facts included in the
document are based on exact observations and the mission will follow
the process of cases to be submitted to the Constitutional Court.