NEW BILL UNACCEPTABLE ON PROPERTY
By Ruzan Poghosian

AZG Armenian Daily
14/11/2006

Recently, "Against Legal Arbitrariness" and "Victims of State Needs"
NGOs made a statement, according to which they find the bill "On
property estrangement for public and state needs" adopted by RA
National Assembly unacceptable.

"After public hearings, not a single change was made to the initial
version, except for a slight change in the last article. The bill
includes several anti-constitutional articles that in case of
being adopted impart the legal acts recognized as illegal by the
constitutional court by legal power. Till now, there had been no
practical steps taken for restoring the rights of people that were
violated as a result of anti-constitutional acts. Besides, the citizens
didn’t receive the 10% of profit tax accumulated from them during
the real estate purchase and sale processes," the statement runs.

The heads of the abovementioned organizations, Larisa Alaverdian
and Sedrak Baghdasarian believe that some of the bill’s articles are
dangerous for development of free market relations and for defense
of an individual’s right for property that serve as important grounds
for building democratic society.