YEREVAN, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN. "Unlike European structures or groups having observation missions that immediately estimated the communal elections as communal elections, the U.S. always does so: the U.S. not responds to the elections, but for days running as if analyses them and agrees with Armenia-U.S. interstate relations," head of the RA National Assembly RPA faction, RPA Vice-Chairman Galust Sahakian said at the June 12 press briefing touching upon the U.S. State Department's report publicized on June 10. The report, in particular, mentioned that "the 2008 presidential elections held with huge shortcomings led to a political crisis, which is not overcome up to now." In response to questions on possible tension in relations inside the coalition after the May 31 Yerevan Council of Elders elections, the RPA deputy said that the elections "further totalized and strengthened the coalition processes." According to him, they were merely communal elections, and the votes received in them "cannot have an impact on country's current political positions." As to discontent of some of RPA coalition partners with the elections, according to G. Sahakian, they can be "consequence of individual approaches." In deputy's opinion, henceforth the coalition "will act more unitedly."

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