NEW OMBUDSMAN REPEATS THE PREVIOUS ONE?
Panorama.am
16:02 18/03/06
Armen Haroutyunyan states the importance of the role of the regional
representations for the institute of Human Rights’ Defender. He
assures they are simply necessities.
During the discussion of State Budget of 2006 former Human Rights’
Defender Larissa Alaverdyan also raised the question of founding
offices in 3 regions of the republic and asked for 11 million drams
from the state budget to realize the idea. Yet the money was not
given. And now the new Defender seems to have the same wish.
But however alike the wished of Larissa Alaverdyan and Armen
Haroutyunyan are their positions concerning the Defender’s annual
report completely differ. As A. Haroutyunyan says the former Defender
wrote her report not before January 5 but after that when she was
no longer Defender. That is why A. Haroutyunyan has prepared his own
report on the basis of the information in the staff as since January
5 Larissa Alaverdyan has merely been a citizen and not Human Rights
Defender.
By the way A. Haroutyunyan is ready to cooperate even with ombudsmen
from our neighbors Georgia and Azerbaijan in the field of Human Rights’
Defence because as he assures “human rights are over state.” On the
other hand, the edges of cooperation with previous Human Rights’
Defender Larissa Alaverdyan are not seen yet. /Panorama.am/