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    "I WANT TO MEET WITH 9 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES"

    A1+
    [06:31 pm] 10 January, 2008

    While talking about the presidential candidates, representatives of
    NGOs and other organizations in Armenia, Secretary General of the
    Council of Europe Terry Davis and the OSCE Needs Assessment Mission
    have pointed out that the most obvious violation before 19 February
    presidential election is the unequal conditions for the presidential
    candidates in the information field.

    Members of the OSCE observation mission refused to answer to the
    question of "A1+", in favor of which candidate the principles of
    equality are violated by the mass media and advised to read the Needs
    Assessment Mission Report.

    OSCE/ODIHR media analyst Ivan Godarsky was involved in the monitoring
    of mass media in the pre-election period. Ambassador Geert-Hinrich
    Ahrens, head of the observation mission also reflected on the primary
    role of the mass media in the elections. "The role of mass media can
    be decisive in the elections", said Mr Ahrens. He raised the issue
    during the meetings with the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs and the
    Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission. "I want to meet with all
    presidential candidates, judicial authorities and the representatives
    of NGOs. I also want to meet the long-term observers in the regions",
    said the head of the OSCE observation mission.

    The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR)
    opened an election observation mission today for the presidential
    election in Armenia on 19 February. Besides 11 core staff of the
    mission, 28 long-term observers will be deployed throughout the
    country on 15 January.

    Mr Ahrens also informed that 250 short-term observers would be deployed
    immediately prior to the election.

    They will monitor the opening of polling stations, the voting, the
    counting of ballots and the tabulation of results. Mr Ahrens, who
    headed the OSCE observation mission during the election in Ukraine in
    2004, declared that they would asses the electoral process in terms
    of its compliance with OSCE commitments for democratic elections,
    other international standards and national legislation. Before 19
    February, the OSCE observers will present 2 interim reports, the next
    day of the election they will present their assessment, and the last
    one they will release in 2 months after the election.

    The head of the OSCE mission mentioned that the OSCE has never
    conducted an exit poll, and it is the US Government's intention to
    conduct an exit poll in Armenia.

    "We can use it as information and analyze it, but we cannot consider
    the results of the exit poll decisive for the final results of
    election", said Ambassador Greet-Hinrich Ahrens.
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