THE US AMBASSADOR SUPPORTING THE OMBUDSMAN

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| 13:04:28 | 17-06-2005 | Official |

On June 16 RA Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan received the US Ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary John Evans on the initiative of
the latter.

The main theme of the conversation was the Annual Report of the
Ombudsman which was evaluated by the Ambassador as the beginning and an
important step in the realization of the Ombudsman’s Institute. Evans
congratulated L. Alaverdyan on the first Annual Report and expressed
his readiness to support the Ombudsman’ Institute underlining that
the issues of human rights have always been one of the priorities of
the US policy.

He also got acquainted with the Ombudsman office and the working
conditions there are as material expression of the support John Evans
presented the Ombudsman’s working group with a computer.