Violence During Armenia Election Campaign are ‘Deplorable’

YEREVAN (News.am)””Violence is bad and we hope very much that the violence will be prevented and avoided, head of EU delegation to Armenia Piotr Switalski told reporters when asked about the recent shooting in the Jrarat village of Armenia’s Armavir province.

The Ambassador said he hopes that very high emotions would not turn into violence during the election campaign. He emphasized that the emotions are running high during campaign in many countries.

“Big responsibility is on the law enforcement agencies, because as we know from other countries, if violence is not reacted and there is no proper response, it will prompt more violence. So we are paying close attention to the activities of law enforcement agencies, police, investigation committee. I hope they will do their job, it is their responsibility to prevent further axe of violence. So far reports speak about isolated cases which are deplorable, we can only hope that there will be no violence during election campaign,”