COMMISSIONER URGES NOT TO BE HIS SPOKESMAN

Panorama.am
15:15 16/07/2008

"Before starting the press conference I would like to clarify a
thing: I can express my view point myself and I don’t allow anybody
to say that in this or that press conference I have expressed a view
point," said the Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammaberg in
the beginning of press conference. He said that he has been informed
that various official press releases have been spread covering his
press conference in Armenia which expressed his view points but
"the majority of them were inaccurate".

To a question whether it concerns to the press release spread by the
Justice Ministry stating that the Commissioner agreed on the point
that criminal cases can be applied based on the police officers’
requests. The Commissioner mentioned that the current issue is well
described in the Resolution and that he agrees with that point in
resolution. He said that as in this case the police officers were
acting against the participants of the meetings their requests can
not be taken into account.