ArmInfo. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared the way  for full Senate confirmation of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia designate  Lynne Tracy and U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan designate Earle  Litzenberger, the press service of the Armenian National Committee of  America (ANCA), reports.  "ANCA is looking forward to the approval of  the candidacy of Lynne Tracy as ambassador and the start of her  mission in the country, where she will have excellent opportunities  to improve the Armenian-American strategic relations. 

ArmInfo. Sir Alan Duncan, Minister of State for European and American Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, welcomes the results  of the parliamentary elections held in Armenia. This is reported on  the Facebook page of the British Embassy in Armenia.

ArmInfo. The Heritage Party qualifies the recent parliamentary elections in Armenia as free, fair and transparent. This is stated in the statement of the party  received by ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. Armenian Acting Defense Minister David Tonoyan received the extraordinary and  full  representation of the Russian Federation Sergei Kopyrkin in  connection with the completion of the mission of the military attache  and the appointment of a new attache.

ArmInfo. The OSCE observation  mission believes that the early parliamentary elections were held in  free conditions and enjoyed the broad confidence of the people. OSCE  Short-Range Observer Special Coordinator Peter Osuski announced this  on December 10 at a press conference

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

ArmInfo. On December 6, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian  received a delegation led by the Vice President of the Senate of the  Italian Republic Paola Taverna, who is in Armenia due to the  extraordinary parliamentary elections in the OSCE PA observer group.

ArmInfo.Armenia attaches importance to the efforts and the progress achieved by the Afghan Government to advance the reforms on a wide-range of areas and to  strengthen the state institutions, as well as to build and  consolidate democracy, the acting Foreign Minister of Armenia stated  in his remarks on December 5, in Brussels at the Ministerial meeting  of the NATO member and non- member states participating in Resolute  Support Mission.

ArmInfo. The campaign for parliamentary elections in Armenia is calm, but the facts of hatred have been recorded. This was announced at a press conference by the head of the Observer Mission of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), Zlatko Vujovic.

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. An observation mission consisting of  40 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 19 countries will  arrive in Yerevan this week. Under the leadership of the OSCE  Short-Range Observer Special Coordinator Peter Osuski (MP, Slovak  Republic) and the head of the OSCE PA delegation, Nakhima Lanjri (MP,  Belgium), observers will take part in meetings and briefings in  anticipation of parliamentary elections on 9 December.

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. By the decree of Armenian President Armen Sargsyan, Arman Kirakosyan was recalled from the post of RA Ambassador to Austria, the head of the Armenian  mission to the OSCE and the post of permanent representative of the  republic in the UN Vienna Office and other international  organizations.

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.Media Specialist of the OSCE / ODIHR election observation mission Ivan Godarsky met with the head of the analytical program of news "Lraber" Shavarsh Gevorgyan on  November 23.

ArmInfo. On November 23, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian received the head of the OSCE / ODIHR observation mission, Ambassador Urszula Gacek.

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ArmInfo.Member of the parliamentary faction "Tsarukyan" Naira Zohrabyan met on November 16 with the head of the OSCE / ODIHR observation mission, Ambassador Urszula Gacek and political analyst Barbara Davis.