Let the elections be as open as possible, and we will not make snap judgments - Baroness Emma Nicholson.

Exciting scenario is not what one should expect from PACE monitoring group statement on the elections in Armenia, the head of the monitoring group Baroness Emma Nicholson told the reporters today.

Monitoring mission of the Council of Europe will visit Armenian polling stations on the day of parliamentary elections on May 6.

"The missions are very keen to release the statement and return to their home countries," she said, adding this has been a source of inaccuracies in snap statements. "However, it is possible to bring out executive summary statements, although they would be less exciting than you would all want – you would like blood and guts and everything on the floor", she told, pointing at the hunger for sensations in the media.

"The reality of the elections does not emerge, in some cases, in several weeks. You are preparing preliminary assessment and then, later on, perhaps a more exhaustive statement," she told the media and requested to respect the attitude of the monitoring group, which wants the best for the country. "That is the best way to improve further elections in Armenia."

The foreign observers mission has been told that "these elections are going to be the best ever", so they arrived with an optimistic approach but they would aim to develop a most balanced view.

"Well be as open as possible, and we will not make snap judgments, which will appear in the headlines," she told, adding that "a good statement is rather boring".

If there is a significant violation in the election process, it will come out, but not necessarily the way the opposition expects, said Piotr Wach, member of the Polish Senate, who arrived in Armenia as a member of PACE monitoring delegation.

International observers cause a shock at polling stations, but sitting peacefully in a corner may see a lot, he said at a press conference in Yerevan.

"Usually we stay at the station more than half an hour and less than an hour, that is the rule. When the poll crew sees an international observer, they try to overact. But if you seat peacefully in the corner, they get accustomed to you and life at the polling station comes to normal. Then you can see a lot," he said. PACE observers at the polling stations will feed an integrated database with real-time reporting, he added.

He reminded that during the elections Armenia will host a significant presence of international observers and more than 16,000 local observers from each political party.

"I wonder if there is going to be any room for electors at all," he said as a joke.

The members of the delegation arrive with open minds to understand the environment in which they are going to perform their monitoring mission and draft an evaluation.

"If there is a significant violation, it will come out. This may be not necessarily in the way the opposition expects. However, it will come out in some way, as it will be inevitably noticed by someone," he added.

He told that the evaluating criteria for the election processes are very close among the observing groups, especially between those of the EU and the Council of Europe, limiting the differences in the reports to personal observations.