10 RA CITIZENS APPLY TO EUROPEAN COURT TO RESTORE THEIR OWNERSHIP RIGHT

Noyan Tapan
Nov 5, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Disguising themselves with "state
needs," a group of high-ranking state officials made redistribution
of property characteristic of Stalin era. Sedrak Baghdasarian, the
Chairman of the Victims of State Needs NGO, said at the November 5
discussion under the title "Ownership Right and Protection of Owners’
Interests." According to him, the RA government making a number
of decisions in 2001-2005, including the decision "On Measures
of Implementation of Construction Programs in the Administrative
Boundaries of Yerevan’s Kentron community," robbed more than 1000
inhabitants of that community. While, as S. Baghdasarian said,
according to the Constitution, "the RA government cannot establish
such a procedure of real estate alienation for public and state needs,
which will authorize it with the right of real estate alienation."

S. Baghdasarian said that the organization will struggle resolutely
to restore the violated rights of citizens, who have been deprived
of the ownership right. According to him, 10 lawsuits have been
introduced to Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights by owners.