ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FAILED TO MEET EC STANDARDS

Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
April 14, 2008 Monday

Strasbourg, April 14 (MTI) – The European Council’s current use of
election observers should be reconsideredafter observers endorsed
February presidential elections in Armenia as free and fair, the head
of Hungary’sparliamentary foreign affairs committee said on Monday.

"Nine people died, several hundred were arrested and kept in prison
for political reasons and the oppositionquestions the legitimacy of
the election," Zsolt Nemeth (Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz party)
said inStrasbourg.

Nemeth urged the European Council to call on the Armenian authorities
to carry out an independent investigation ofthe elections. If they
fail to then the EC should do so, he added.

After the presidential elections of February 19, several tens of
thousand opposition supporters demonstrated against the victory of
Serzh Sargsyan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress