ARMENIAN LEADER UPBEAT ABOUT 2008 PRESIDENTIAL POLL

Mediamax
Oct 8 2007
Armenia

Yerevan, 10 October: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has expressed
his confidence that the 2008 presidential election will be held in the
"atmosphere of trust and stability".

Kocharyan said that the 2007 parliamentary election was recognized
as the one meeting international standards, he said while addressing
the Armenian-Belgian business forum on 9 October [in Brussels].

The Armenian president said that "the electorate had expressed their
trust in the government’s policy and denied the radical political
forces the right to be in the National Assembly".