OMBUDSMAN: I DO NOT THINK THAT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER SHOULD ASSESS WORDS BY COUNTRY’S PRESIDENT
arminfo
2008-03-12 13:22:00
ArmInfo. ‘I do not think that human rights defender should assess the
words by the country’s president>, Armenian Ombudsman Armen Haroutunyan
said at a press conference Wednesday when commenting on Robert
Kocharyan’s statement saying that ‘Ombudsman is the worst decision
in the staff issue’. To recall, the president made this statement
following the Ombudsman’s assessment of 1 March incidents in Yerevan.
‘I believe I rely on Constitution and the legislation of the country,
as well as on European Convention for Human Rights in my work. It
is the people who assess the activity of human rights defender’,
A. Haroutunyan said.