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    `We have sufficient political will to hold free elections, and we have
    very serious intention to do that', Armenian President stated

    January 18, 2008

    Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated in
    Yerevan today that the state bodies do everything possible to hold free
    and fair elections.

    Mediamax reports that, talking to the journalists today after the
    meeting in Yerevan City Administration, the President stated that all
    the structures work according to the schedule, established in
    accordance with the electoral legislation.

    `We have sufficient political will to hold free and fair elections. We
    have already demonstrated that will during the parliamentary elections
    of May 12 of 2007 and we have very serious intention to do that', the
    Armenian President stated.

    Robert Kocharian expects that `the members of electoral commission will
    stand above their party interests that will perceive themselves as
    members of a state structure and work in the corresponding manner'.

    The President refuted the accusations of certain oppositional forces
    concerning planned large-scale falsifications, in particular,
    concerning the intention of the authorities to organize a printing of
    false passports. According to him, `these people show themselves
    astonishingly uninformed, and I see here the problem of absence or a
    deficit of shame'.

    Commenting on the statements of the opposition, concerning the fact
    that this year the Armenian government should allocate 178mln drams for
    printing passports, Robert Kocharian stated that `not a single dram'
    will be spent from the given sum in the course of the nearest few
    months.

    The President specified that the given sum is provided for the
    implementation of a new passport system in Armenia with bio-chips in
    the passports ` for the simplification of visa relations with the
    European countries.
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