GROUP PREPARING GENERAL MEETING OF UNION OF WRITERS OF ARMENIA CONSIDERS IT NECESSARY TO CONVENE GENERAL MEETING AND ADOPT REGULATIONS TO SAVE UWA FROM DISSOLUTION

Noyan Tapan

Feb 10, 2009

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. "It is necessary to convene
immediately a general meeting of the Union of Writers of Armenia and
adopt draft regulations of the Union in order to save the Union from
dissolution," is said in the February 10 statement of the group
preparing a general meeting of the Union of Writers of Armenia
(UWA). The group has developed draft regulations of UWA.

According to the group, the regulations of UWA lost validity in 2001,
and the authorities of the Union expired in May 2003 as the requirement
of the Law on Nongovernmental Organizations in the Republic of Armenia
to convene a general meeting of the organization every second year was
not fulfilled: the regular meeting of UWA was not held in 2003. The
group says that the deals concluded by the Union’s chairman Levon
Ananian "on conditions beneficial to him" are illegal. It asks the
prosecutor general of Armenia "not to open a criminal case against
L. Ananian and to be content with this statement".