U.S. commended the people of Armenia on successful elections that were well administered, generally, official representative of State Department said.

Victoria Nuland was asked whether she had any new information about the fairness and transparency of Armenian presidential elections during the Thursday briefing.

“No. I spoke about that here on Monday, both what went well and what still needs to be done in terms of the situation in Armenia. And as a general matter, we – as you know, in line with what OSCE ODIHR had to say, we commended the people of Armenia on successful elections that were well administered, generally. But there are, as there are in many countries, additional things that can be worked on going forward. But I don’t have any update on the long statement that we issued yesterday.”

Armenia held presidential elections on February 18. Preliminary results issued by Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission showed incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan received 58.64%, while his closest rival Raffi Hovannisian -36.74. The voter turnout reached 1, 521, 931.