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EUFOA WELCOMED THE ELECTIONS IN ARTSAKH
ARMENPRESS
20 July, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: "European friends of Armenia" group
welcomed presidential elections in NKR on July 19. EuFoA mentions
in the massage given to Armenpress that it the wish of de-facto
authorities to organize local governance based on democratic
principles. In the massage is said:
"Our observation mission was a short-term observation and included
the Election Day, parts of the electoral counting procedures and
interviews with candidates and other observers. Our mission did
not include media monitoring, long-term observation before or after
Election Day, monitoring of the complaints procedure and follow-up. To
cover these important aspects of election observation, we recommend
full OSCE-ODIHR missions for the future. Our mission included 23 of
the 245 polling stations, stretching from Hadrout in the south to
Mardakert in the north, covering polling stations sizing from 1932
voters in Hadrout to 18 voters in the mountainous village of Mehmana.
We strongly commend the local authorities for allowing us to move
absolutely freely around Nagorno-Karabakh (including the scarcely
populated buffer zone around) and to question anyone directly or
indirectly connected to the elections. The efforts made to allow
us and other observer teams to gain full insights and transparency
were considerable and we call upon the international community to
appreciate these efforts.
The solidarity of democrats' demands that we prefer and promote
the basic human right of democratic self-governance and it is in
this context that our group carried out our mission here. We call
in particular upon the OSCE ODIHR to provide technical assistance
and election observation for future local-election, as part of a
humanitarian development aid, even if this is done while underlining
the non-recognition of the local state entity. This will provide for
a real boost in local democratic culture and help prepare the local
population for the time after the resolution of the so-called frozen
conflict, as envisaged by the OSCE Minsk Group".
The group recorded several positive sides among which:
Proxies of at least two of the three candidates were present in all
polling stations; all proxies questioned reported no violations of
the electoral code, at the time of asking, in line with the electoral
code, educational posters were visible in all polling stations and
many others.
ARMENPRESS
20 July, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: "European friends of Armenia" group
welcomed presidential elections in NKR on July 19. EuFoA mentions
in the massage given to Armenpress that it the wish of de-facto
authorities to organize local governance based on democratic
principles. In the massage is said:
"Our observation mission was a short-term observation and included
the Election Day, parts of the electoral counting procedures and
interviews with candidates and other observers. Our mission did
not include media monitoring, long-term observation before or after
Election Day, monitoring of the complaints procedure and follow-up. To
cover these important aspects of election observation, we recommend
full OSCE-ODIHR missions for the future. Our mission included 23 of
the 245 polling stations, stretching from Hadrout in the south to
Mardakert in the north, covering polling stations sizing from 1932
voters in Hadrout to 18 voters in the mountainous village of Mehmana.
We strongly commend the local authorities for allowing us to move
absolutely freely around Nagorno-Karabakh (including the scarcely
populated buffer zone around) and to question anyone directly or
indirectly connected to the elections. The efforts made to allow
us and other observer teams to gain full insights and transparency
were considerable and we call upon the international community to
appreciate these efforts.
The solidarity of democrats' demands that we prefer and promote
the basic human right of democratic self-governance and it is in
this context that our group carried out our mission here. We call
in particular upon the OSCE ODIHR to provide technical assistance
and election observation for future local-election, as part of a
humanitarian development aid, even if this is done while underlining
the non-recognition of the local state entity. This will provide for
a real boost in local democratic culture and help prepare the local
population for the time after the resolution of the so-called frozen
conflict, as envisaged by the OSCE Minsk Group".
The group recorded several positive sides among which:
Proxies of at least two of the three candidates were present in all
polling stations; all proxies questioned reported no violations of
the electoral code, at the time of asking, in line with the electoral
code, educational posters were visible in all polling stations and
many others.