Although some progress has been made since the last presidential elections on 5 March 2003, especially re garding the technical preparations, the pre-election campaign and the media coverage of the pre-electoral campaign, the EU regrets that the overall election process did not meet the international standards in a number of key aspects, whereas the Armenian authorities promised substantive improvements after the Presidential elections of 19 February 2003.
Unioniin piakkoin liittyvät valtiot Kypros, Latvia, Liettua, Malta, Puola, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tsekki, Unkari ja Viro, assosioituneet maat Bulgaria, Romania ja Turkki sekä Eu roopan talousalueeseen kuuluvat Efta-maat Islanti, Liechtenstein ja Norja yhtyvät tähän julkilausumaan."