FREEDOM OF INFORMATIOM IS IMPORTANT FOR KOCHARYAN?

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[04:56 pm] 19 June, 2006

Today Robert Kocharyan received Ambassador Miklosh Harashti, OSCE
representative on the issues of freedom of information.

Robert Kocharyan assess the cooperation with the OSCE as
effective. Finding the freedom of information important, he said
that free press has an important mission in representing the legal
real situation in the country. At the same time, according to Robert
Kocharyan, the freedom of press must not violate human rights.

The sides exchanged ideas about the formation of free press, the main
obstacles of the realization of press as business and the necessity
of state Mass Media.

According to Kocharyan, Armenia is in the transitional phase and the
country is characterized by the features of that phase.