DASHNAKTSUTIUN IS AGAINST RESTRICTION IN ACTIVITIES OF OSCE MONITORING MISSIONS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 26, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The ARF Dashnaktsutiun is against
restricting the activities of the OSCE monitoring missions and believes
that their staff should be expanded, so that observers can be present
at all the polling stations. In that case, as Hrayr Karapetian, the
Chairman of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun faction of the National Assembly,
mentioned during the parliamentary briefing held on October 26, they
will be able to judge about electoral violations on the bases of their
own observations and not on "what they have heard from here or there."

According to Hrayr Karapetian, the OSCE should take part in electoral
processes in the role of an independent observer and representatives
of one or at least two countries should not prevail in the monitoring
mission. In his words, the conclusion of the OSCE observers, with
which an opinion is created about the country in all the international
democratic structures, is important for Armenia.

It should be mentioned that according to the information provided by
the Radio Liberty, Russia has made a suggestion on restricting the
activities of the OSCE monitoring missions in electoral processes, and
the document has been signed by Armenia among former Soviet countries.