ArmInfo.A number of intellectuals and experts decided to form a working group that will develop approaches to resolve the Karabakh conflict and present them  to the Prime Minister, the head of the foreign ministry and the OSCE  Minsk Group co-chairs.

ArmInfo.On the part of the Investigation Committee of Armenia, there are constant injections of unfinished information regarding the inspection process at South  Caucasus Railway CJSC. This is stated in the statement of the SCR,  received by ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. The imperative of guarantees for a fair judicial investigation of each criminal case is the full independence of the judicial system and the protected professional activities of a lawyer. This is stated in the comment of the Defender of Human Rights Arman Tatoyan in connection with the situation related to Manvel Grigoryan.

ArmInfo. Armenia does not  consider the possibility of acquiring American weapons, RA Acting  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, on December 19, referring to the  appeal of the national security adviser to the US President John  Bolton to abandon the purchase of Russian weapons in favor of the US.

ArmInfo. The mission of the CIS observers assesses the December 9 extraordinary elections to the National Assembly of Armenia open and transparent. They reported this on December 10th at a press conference.

ArmInfo. "We have no right to compare the process of preparation for elections in different countries, we assess the election process in terms of its compliance  with international standards", the OSCE Observer Mission on  Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR / OSCE) in Armenia  told ArmInfo correspondent. Ambassador, Ms.   Urszula Gacek,  responding to a question about her assessment of the preparatory  process for elections in Armenia in comparison with other countries  of the former Soviet Union, in which the Ambassador participated.

ArmInfo.As of 11.00am, 7.76% of voters took part in the early elections to the National  Assembly of Armenia. The Deputy Chairman of the Central Election  Commission (CEC) Laura Galstyan reported this on December 9 at the  briefing.

ArmInfo.As of 10:00am, one of the largest election monitoring initiatives, the Independent Observer, recorded the following violations in Gegharkunik, Shirak,  Lori and Kotayk regions According to the report, near the polling  stations of 20/05, Sevan, Gegharkunik region, 23/54 and 23/53 in  Vanadzor, 33/20, in the village of Panik (Shirak region), propaganda  posters were hung.  

ArmInfo. "I voted for the development of Armenia, for managing the state through innovative programs, for creating jobs, and not for reducing them, for  overcoming internal and external threats through innovative  approaches," Artur Baghdasaryan, leader of the ''Orinats Yerkir''  party, told journalists on December 9 after as voted at the polling  station 9/50.

ArmInfo. The leader of the election list of the Republican Party, the former head of the  Ministry of Defense Vigen Sargsyan, hopes that by the end of election  day the Armenian society will become more united. "Armenia, which  today is facing such important challenges, simply needs to  consolidate forces. Forming an internal enemy is very dangerous for  us," he told reporters after he voted at the polling station 9/47 in  the center of Yerevan.

ArmInfo.Early elections to the National Assembly of Armenia are being held normally. This was announced on December 9 at a briefing at the Central Election  Commission (CEC) by the head of the department Tigran Mukuchyan.

ArmInfo.Today, extraordinary parliamentary elections are being held in Armenia, in which 9 parties and 2 blocs participate. The number of voters, according to the  Central Election Commission, is 2,575,939 people.

ArmInfo.The mission of observers from the CIS continues to monitor elections to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.

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ArmInfo. From the very beginning of the election campaign, employees of the Office of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia have been monitoring.

ArmInfo.On December 4, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic), the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the Line of  Contact between the armed forces of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, to the  south- east from Kuropatkino settlement of the Martuni region.

ArmInfo.In order to monitor the electoral process, a working group was formed on the preparation and holding of December 9 extraordinary elections to the National  Assembly of Armenia. This was stated by Human Rights Defender of the  Republic of Armenia Arman Tatoyan during a meeting with the head of  the observation mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic  Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) OSCE  Urszula Gacek.

ArmInfo.A meeting between Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel was held In Berlin.

ArmInfo.Head of the mission of the CIS observers mission in the early elections to the  National Assembly of Armenia Yevgeni Sloboda, visited the Prosecutor  General's Office of Armenia and met with Deputy Prosecutor General  and head of the working group on investigation of violations during  the upcoming elections Hayk Aslanyan.

ArmInfo. A working group on monitoring electoral processes for the upcoming parliamentary  elections in December this year has been established under the office of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia.