ARMENIAN REPRESENTATIVES TO ALSO CONDUCT OBSERVATION MISSION AT MARCH 2 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Three MPs of the RA National
Assembly and four representatives of the staff of the Central Electoral
Commission will conduct observation mission at the presidential
elections to be held in the Russian Federation on March 2.

As a Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Anahit Adamian, the
Head of the Public Relations Department of the National Assembly,
Republican Eduard Sharmazanov and Ernest Soghomonian, a representative
of the Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous Armenia) faction, members of
the Armenian delegation in the Assembly are included in the staff of
the observation mission of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. The
first will observe the elections in Saint Petersburg, the second in
Moscow. Raffi Hovhannisian, the leader of the Zharangutiun (Heritage)
faction, who will follow the elections in the staff of the ad-hoc
commission for observation of the elections of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, will also leave for Moscow.

According to Tatev Ohanian, the Spokesperson of the Central Electoral
Commission, three representatives of the staff of the Commission, will
leave for the Russian Federation as observers at the invitation of the
Central Electoral Commission of that country and one representative
at the invitation of the CIS Leadership.