“UNACCOUNTED-FOR FREEDOM FIGHTERS” ARMENIAN UNION JOINS “COMMUNITY AND
RIGHT” NGO

YEREVAN, MARCH 18, NOYAN TAPAN. “Unaccounted-for Freedom Fighters”
union was included into the “Community and Right” NGO in order to
enhance the efficiency of its activity. Rima Arakelian, the Chairwoman
of the Union, informed about it at the March 18 press
conference. According to her, the idea of uniting arose as a result of
the programs implemented jointly during previous years. R.Arakelian
mentioned that from now and then they will go on searching
unaccounted-for freedom fighters, rendering assistance to their
families, the number of which is 6000. Samvel Mkrtchian, the Chairman
of the “Community and Right” organization, didn’t exclude their future
involvment in the political activity in order to realize their ideas
and programs. According to him, the Union came up with a suggestion to
make additions to the 16th and 34th articles of RA Law “On
Servicemen’s Social Security”. They offer to set up a right of early
retairing for servicemen’s parents and to fix a higher pension for
them. R.Arakelian informed that at present they are searching 350
unaccounted-for freedom fighters, the information about whom is rather
little. S.Mkrtchian said that, according to unofficial data, there are
about 100 unaccounted-for freedom fighters in Azerbaijan’s prisons at
present.