THE ISSUE OF THE BUZAND DWELLERS WAS CANCELLED FOR 2 WEEKS

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07:47 pm 21 March, 2006

The Human Rights Protector Armen Harutunyan deserved the explicit
affection of many journalists, court workers and ordinary citizens
today in the Constitutional Court. After the first break of the CC
session the citizens came up to the Protector, even embraced with
him saying o lot of words of praise in his address.

The first Ombudsman Larisa Alavrerdyan was also in the CC but the
people deprived of their houses were not so much interested in her
personality. We asked Mrs.

Alaverdyan to comment on the strategy of the present Protector and
whether she was glad to see the warm attitude of the citizens towards
Armen Harutunyan.

“I always say “Give a person a chance to work,” as for the criticism
I shall have time to return to it,” answered Larisa Alaverdyan.

In today’s CC session Armen Harutunyan could not persuade the
Government and the Chairman that the constructing projects in Kentron
district were realized against the provisions of the RA Constitution
and the international norms. The Minister of the Justice who is at
the same time the Government representative thinks that the 99% of
the citizens who complain of the constructions undertaken in Kentron
complain of the compensation money.

The new assistant and the representative of the chairman Gevorg Mheryan
had nothing to say on this score. While making his speech and answering
the questions he stuck to the Articles of the Protector’s application,
repeated those Articles for a few times and insisted on the same thing-
the provisions in question are fully legal and constitutional.

The CC did not finish the hearings of the application.

It was decided to cancel the hearings for two weeks, to invite
international experts who will say their conclusions on a number of
controversial juridical formations.

Meanwhile the Government representative also wanted to add the issues
requiring experts’ interpretation and was obliged to present the paper
according to which the executive body deemed the “Construction of
Kentron” number 1 income. This decision of the Government has never
been published.