The United States congratulates the people of Armenia on their June 20 parliamentary elections. We welcome the overall positive assessment by the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission. We are pleased that ODIHR’s preliminary conclusions noted voters’ human rights and fundamental freedoms were generally respected, contestants were able to campaign freely, and that ODIHR assessed election-day vote counting as positive. We share ODIHR’s concern regarding …

Early parliamentary elections took place in Armenia on 20 June. According to the preliminary assessment of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Election Observation Mission, the elections were competitive and generally well-managed within a short timeframe. Voters were provided with a broad range of …

Daniel Ioannisyan, the coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens, NGO, said in a Facebook post that the Independent Observer had discovered a number of problems. “After studying the spreadsheets, the Independent Observer found a number of obvious mistakes in polling stations 4/2, 4/3, 4/9, 4/16, 4/44, 9/55, 10/43, 14/8, 23/42, 23 /47, 24/4, 25/34, …

The foreign ministers of Romania, Austria and Lithuania are set to visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia June 24-26, Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu wrote on Twitter. “EU support for the Eastern Partnership also means greater EU involvement, including in protracted conflicts. Under the mandate of EU High Representative Josep Borrell, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg …

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told a briefing following a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Mukhtar Tleuberdi today that some provisions of the November 9 trilateral ceasefire statement in Nagorno Karabakh are being implemented and some of them are being delayed, Azerbaijani media reported. “I have informed my Kazakh counterpart about the need for hundreds …

The Armenia bloc has issued a statement, which reads: The Armenia bloc expresses its gratitude to those citizens of the Republic of Armenia who supported the bloc in the June 20, 2010 National Assembly elections and voted for it. It inspires confidence that hundreds of thousands of our citizens concerned about the country not only …

The National-Democratic Axis has issued a statement saying it does not accept the election results. “The election held under the semi-colonial regime did not differ significantly from the previous ones by any criteria. The people had not yet healed from the catastrophic wounds of the Russian-Turkish-Azerbaijani war organized with the service of the incumbent and …

Equality and protection of women will be one of the main topics of the PACE summer session, which starts in Strasbourg today. As in the previous session early in the year, the discussions will again take place in a hybrid format, in the presence of a limited number of parliamentarians in the session hall, TASS …

The Central Electoral Commission has published the information on the voting results received from 2008 polling stations of Armenia. Fair Armenia party – 3912 votes, 0.31% Armenian National Congress party – 19, 647 votes, 1.54% Civil Contract party 687, 251 votes -53.92% Awakening National Christian Party – 4,623 votes – 0.36% Freedom party – 1,842 …

The United Nations announced that drought is at risk of becoming “the next pandemic” if urgent action isn’t taken to tackle climate change through water and land management. According to a report published on Thursday, about 1.5 billion people have suffered from the effects of droughts this century, with the land devastation, food insecurity and other …