CE Draft Resolution on Armenia
RFE/RL reports that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is likely to demand that parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for 2007 and 2008 meet certain standards for democratic elections.
Of course, there’s been no word of what will happen if they’re not, but anyway. Part of the draft resolution that will be put before Assembly in January reads as follows.
4.2. The Assembly attaches particular importance to the organisation and conduct of the forthcoming parliamentary elections in spring 2007 and the presidential elections in 2008. It is disappointed that, since Armenia’s accession to the Council of Europe in 2001, not a single election held there has been deemed fully free and fair. It is essential that the next ballot should at last comply with European standards for free and fair elections, as proof of Armenia’s progress along the road to democracy and European integration.
The full draft resolution is here.
Comment by Onnik — December 14, 2006 @ 11:48 pm
Each election with the passsing and possible implementation of the new law hopefully will improve elcection proceeding more fairly.
Comment by g_sernaz — December 15, 2006 @ 1:22 am