ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Jan 16 2008

Observer mission of CIS interparliamentary assembly to conduct
interim monitoring in Armenia

YEREVAN, January 16. /ARKA/. An observer mission of the
Interparliamentary Assembly, Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS), is to conduct interim monitoring on the threshold of the
presidential election in Armenia early in February.

The Public Relations Department, RA Parliament, reports that, at his
meeting with Speaker of the RA Parliament Tigran Torosyan, Secretary
General of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly Mikhail Krotov
reported that a 10-member expert group headed by Anatoly Torshin is
to conduct the monitoring in Armenia.

Krotov reported that the observer mission also plans to hold meetings
with Armenia’s leaders, Chairman of the RA Central Electoral
Commission and the presidential candidates that are willing to meet
with mission members.

The presidential election is to be held in Armenia on February 19,
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