ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2007
Speaker of the Armenian parliament: there is no state in Europe where
human rights were broken at least once
ArmInfo. ‘There is no state in Europe where human rights where
broken at least once’, – speaker of the Armenian parliament Tigran
Torosyan said at the two-day international conference ‘The role of
the Constitutional Court and Human Rights Defender in human rights
protection issues’ opened in Yerevan today.
The conference is organized by the joint efforts of Constitutional
Court of Armenia, Armenian Ombudsman office and the European
Commission ‘Democracy via law’. Representatives of constitutional
courts of more than 30 European states are taking part in the
conference. President of the European Court on Human rights Jean-Paul
Costa and Secretary General of Venice Commission of the
Council of Europe Gianni Buquicchio made a greeting speech at the
conference.
Tigran Torosyan emphasized that after making amendments to the
Armenian Constitution ordinary citizens of Armenia gained an
opportunity to apply to the Constitutional Court. Just close parallel
activity of the three structures – constitutional court, parliament
and ombudsman office can effectively resolve the problem of ensuring
and human rights protection, Torosyan said.
To note, a scandal happened at the beginning of the conference, as
its organizers did not take the number of the participants into
account, as a result of which not only journalists but also deputy
Russian ambassador to Armenia could not get earphones and listen to
translations. The latter was loudly expressing his indignation until
getting earphones. As for the journalists, the majority of them
relied on their knowledge of foreign languages.