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The members of ODIHR election observation mission in Armenia met on Wednesday with representatives of "Armenia" pre-election bloc, the official representative of  the bloc Aram Vardevanyan said. 

"The meeting was attended by president Kocharyan and Mr Georgian, the head of the election campaign headquarters of 'Armenia' bloc. During the meeting, president Kocharyan expressed concerns over the ongoing process. The ODIHR observers presented their initial report that has been published," Vardevanyan said, adding the report, however, lacked information about the real state of affairs in the pre-election reality of Armenia. 

In his words, the observers have not reflected on numerous cases on the misuse of administrative resources by the power and it didn't covered the propaganda of hate speech which everyone witnesses.  

"The actions of the OSCE/observers ODIHR contain significant risks to characterise their approach as biased at least which is  extremely concerning at this stage," the representative of the bloc said.  "The impression is OSCE/ODIHR observers see a different Armenia," Vardevanyan concluded.