ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL SUPERVISORY SERVICE RECEIVES 10,000 COMPLAINTS IN LATTER HALF 2008

ARKA
Dec 26, 2008

YEREVAN, December 26. /ARKA/. The RA Presidential Supervisory Service
received 10,000 complaints in the latter half of this year – 2.5
times as many as in the latter half of last year.

Head of the Service Hovhannes Hovsepyan said that the reason for a
larger number of complaints is not only the efficiency of the Service,
but also the public confidence in the Armenian President.

About 25% of the complaints concern the Yerevan Municipality, 17%
the judicial system, and about 16% deal with social problems.

Hovsepyan also reported that positive decisions were made on 37.1%
of the complaints, which is a good result. Hovsepyan also said that
some of the complaints are ungrounded ones and no legal decisions
case be made on them.

"As a result of inspections conducted in the latter half of this year
the Service revealed violations to the amount of over 1bln AMD, with
several hundred million drams having been transferred to the budget,"
Hovsepyan said.

He pointed out that the Service will continue serving the law to
ensure the rule of law in Armenia.

Hovsepyan said that the Service reports all the facts of violations
to the President, and all the lawbreakers, including officials,
will be punished.

"We do not feel any pressure. Rather, we are trying to help to all
those filing comp laints top us, including the ones about officials,"
Hovsepyan said.

He pointed out that, as a result of the inspections, the heads of a
number of local departments of the Real Estate Register, as well as
the head of the transport department of the Yerevan Municipality and
a number of school headmasters, were relieved of their posts.

The RA Presidential Press Service exercises supervision over the
execution of the President’s decrees and orders, Government’s
resolutions by officials and local government bodies.