Parliamentary elections in Armenia over

Emil Lazarian News

Interfax, Russia
May 12 2007

Parliamentary elections in Armenia over

YEREVAN. May 12 (Interfax) – Voting in Armenian parliamentary
elections ended at 8:00 p.m. (1500 GMT) on Saturday.

Some of the opposition parties claimed there had been instances of
rigging. The Central Election Commission said it had received formal
complaints about alleged offenses during voting but that allegations
of rigging in the majority of them had not been confirmed and that
some of them were still being investigated.

A preliminary report put the turnout at 55%. The Central Election
Commission said it would definitively announce the turnout at 9:00
p.m. as

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS