At a press conference held today, Anahit Sargsyan, head of the Armenian parliamentary monitoring mission, lambasted Armenian TV stations for not covering the parliamentary elections recently held in District 10. "TV stations hade essentially boycotted the elections and offered no coverage of post-election developments. They also don’t cover on-going monitoring reports as witnessed by their absence here today," noted Mrs. Sargsyan. She said that her organization had sent a petition to Armenia’s National TV and Radio Committee. She stated that the protest was regarding the fact that TV stations hadn’t set a per-minute price for broadcast time dealing with election campaign publicity. Mrs. Sargsyan added that the Committee, in its response, argued that according to the law, TV stations did not have to publish such broadcasting rates given that the stations hadn’t intended to sell airtime to the various candidates.