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HEAD OF ARMENIA'S DELEGATION IS DISPLEASED BY PACE REPORT ON ELECTIONS
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May 25, 2012 | 16:07
Regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE) Standing Committee was held Friday in Tirana, Albania,
during which the PACE Observation Mission's report on Armenia's May
6 National Assembly (NA) elections was presented.
But the report caused a "surprise and bewilderment" to NA MP and head
of Armenia's delegation at PACE, Davit Harutyunyan.
He stressed: "Armenia recorded considerable success in terms of
accurate voting lists. All of the report's accusations are superficial
and they disregard Armenian authorities' reasonable explanations.
The great number of passports issued in 2011-2012 is explained by the
fact that Armenia has begun issuing national passports ever since
1992, and with a ten-year expiry date, and it is natural that the
old passports will have to be replaced with new ones in 2011-2012."
Also, Harutyunyan commented on the growth in the number of voters and
said these numbers' birth indicator "exceeds the death indicator by
close to 270 thousand," and therefore these citizens became eligible
to vote for the first time in 2012 and became constituents.
"So as to reduce this biased and unjust report's damaging effect,
I am authorized to formally invite the OSCE/ODIHR [OSCE Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights] to conduct a post-election
mission to re-inspect the voting list inaccuracies," Davit Harutyunyan
stated from the PACE floor.
"The report is full of manipulations," he noted.
"The PACE Observation Mission should study and publicize a report on
its own. It [i.e., the report] must be based solely on real, direct
studies," head of Armenia's delegation at PACE proposed.
news.am
May 25, 2012 | 16:07
Regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE) Standing Committee was held Friday in Tirana, Albania,
during which the PACE Observation Mission's report on Armenia's May
6 National Assembly (NA) elections was presented.
But the report caused a "surprise and bewilderment" to NA MP and head
of Armenia's delegation at PACE, Davit Harutyunyan.
He stressed: "Armenia recorded considerable success in terms of
accurate voting lists. All of the report's accusations are superficial
and they disregard Armenian authorities' reasonable explanations.
The great number of passports issued in 2011-2012 is explained by the
fact that Armenia has begun issuing national passports ever since
1992, and with a ten-year expiry date, and it is natural that the
old passports will have to be replaced with new ones in 2011-2012."
Also, Harutyunyan commented on the growth in the number of voters and
said these numbers' birth indicator "exceeds the death indicator by
close to 270 thousand," and therefore these citizens became eligible
to vote for the first time in 2012 and became constituents.
"So as to reduce this biased and unjust report's damaging effect,
I am authorized to formally invite the OSCE/ODIHR [OSCE Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights] to conduct a post-election
mission to re-inspect the voting list inaccuracies," Davit Harutyunyan
stated from the PACE floor.
"The report is full of manipulations," he noted.
"The PACE Observation Mission should study and publicize a report on
its own. It [i.e., the report] must be based solely on real, direct
studies," head of Armenia's delegation at PACE proposed.