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| 15:43:02 | 15-04-2005 | Politics |
THE AUTHORITIES HAVE NO WILL POWER
On the initiative of the `Cooperation for the sake of Open Society’ a round
table was organized today with the theme of the RA Law about `Organizing
meetings, marches and demonstrations’. A suchlike discussion was also held
last year when the organizers and the participants underlined that they are
not satisfied with the current legislative situation and offer to
immediately improve the Law.
A year has passed, but no points have been changed in the Law, points most
of which do not correspond to the RA Constitution and the Human Rights
Convention. Ileyn Konkievich, deputy head of the OSCE Yerevan office was
also present at today’s discussion. He is surprised by the fact that the NA
has taken no legislative initiative by now.
Why? We asked this question RA Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan. In the
OSCE resolution adopted last October the responsibility of changing the law
was imposed on the RA Government. Avoiding answering the main question the
Minister hinted that it is these discussions that will bring us to
legislative initiatives.
`I would like to share the optimist of the Minister if the offers which
sounded here are included in the legislative initiative without violations.
But this is where I seriously doubt the will power of our authorities as the
offers sounding here have been sounding for a long time. I do not see the
will power in the NA’, this was what Vardan Pogosyan said in answer to David
Haroutyunyan.