`Possible violations during the elections will be limited to minimum’,
RPA representative stated

December 21, 2007
Yerevan /Mediamax/.

The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will make all the efforts to hold
the upcoming presidential elections on February 18 of 2008 better than
the parliamentary elections, held in 2007.

Mediamax reports that member of RPA faction Eduard Sharmazanov said
this in Yerevan today. He recalled that in May of 2007 the nation-wide
elections in Armenia for the first time received positive assessment of
the international observers.

Sharmazanov expressed confidence that the upcoming elections will
proceed at high level, and all the possible violations will be limited
to minimum.

Summing up the year of 2007, the MP stated that, as a result of
parliamentary elections, `the radical political forces were defeated’.
According to him, `the new coalitional government, functioning
constructively, presented an ambitious, but at the same a realistic
program’. Eduard Sharmazanov noted that in the course of the past 7
years `the government, headed by the RPA, fulfilled the commitments,
taken upon itself, as a result of which the level of poverty in the
country was decreased from 56% to 29.8%.

`In the course of the starting reforms of second generation, we plan to
reach equal development of the capital and the regions of our country’,
he stated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress