ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO OBSERVE DUMA ELECTION IN RUSSIA
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Nov 1 2007
YEREVAN, November 1. /ARKA/. The Armenian delegation will observe the
elections of the RF Duma in December, said RA NA (National Assembly)
Speaker Tigran Torosian during his meeting with RF Duma Speaker Boris
Grizlov in St. Petersburg on October 31.
The RA Na Speaker wished the Edinaya Rossia (United Russia) Party good
luck in the forthcoming election. He assured that Armenian-Russian
bilateral cooperation will continue to develop actively after the
Duma election.
In this connection, the RA NA Speaker attached importance to the
activities of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization.
Grizlov stated that the Edinaya Rossia Party and its leader President
Vladimir Putin plan to hold their ground in the lower chamber of the
RF Duma. The RF Speaker informed his Armenian colleague about the
results of the recent draw made by the RF Central Electoral Committee,
according to which Edinaya Rossia will be the 10th in the ballot.
The RF Central Electoral Committee has recorded 11 parties for the
participation of the Duma election on December 2. These are the
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), Liberal-Democratic
Party of Russia (LDPR), Edinaya Rossia, Spravedlivaya Rossia (Just
Russia), Soyuz Pravikh Sil (Union of Right-Wing Parties), Yabloko
(the United Russian Democratic Party), Patrioti Rossii (Patriots of
Russia), the Democratic Party of Russia, Grazhdanskaya Sila (Civil
Power), Agrarian Party of Russia and the Social Justice Party.
RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosian has left for Russia to participate
in the meeting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly opened in
St. Petersburg on October 31.