RA OMBUDSMAN: THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY OUT OF THE CURRENT SITUATION – THE PATH OF COOPERATION

armradio.am
27.02.2008 14:53

The Armenian Human Rights Defender, Aram Harutyunyan welcomes Serge
Sargsyan’s speech during yesterday’s meeting, where he called the
opposition for cooperation and tolerance.

Speaking at a press conference in Yerevan, the Ombudsman called on all
politicians to "listen to each other." According to him, there is only
one way out of the current situation, i.e. the path of cooperation.

"We must not move along a way, where one of the parties will lose,"
Armen Harutyunyan said.

"Our hotline registered 25 concrete complaints during the elections,
4-5 of which were about facts of violence," the Ombudsman said,
adding that the rest of the complaints were connected with election
bribes. According to him, criminal cases were launched on almost all
concrete complaints.

Asked about the cases of arrests and dismissals, Armen Harutyunyan
responded that "employees of law-enforcement bodies and diplomats
have no right to get engaged in politics without refusing from their
position. If they think that during the demonstrations they have
not come forth with political statements, and have simply declared
about election frauds, they can apply to court to be restored in
their positions."