Mediamax, Armenia
Oct 11 2007

EU recognizes positive changes in Armenia’s last parliamentary poll

Yerevan, 11 October: President of the European Commission Jose
Barroso said that the European Union recognizes the positive changes
registered at the parliamentary election in May 2007 in Armenia,
Mediamax special correspondent reports from Brussels where Jose
Manuel Barroso said this at a joint briefing with Armenian President
Robert Kocharian on 10 October.

Jose Manuel Barroso told Mediamax that the European Union waits "for
the continuation of this tendency at the presidential election in
Armenia in February 2008". He voiced his hope that Armenia would take
into account proposals made by European observers in the
parliamentary election.

"There are all basis for our expectations to come true in the
presidential election in Armenia," the president of the European
Commission said.