ECTHR HAS RETURNED 14 VERDICTS ON ARMENIA SO FAR
Gita Elibekyan

"Radiolur"
20.03.2009 15:26

"Our legislation would be in a better condition if it was in line
with international documents: this was the question raised during
the forum of lawyers. Some stated that unable to succeed in Armenian
courts, many Armenian citizens apply to the European Court of Human
Rights. Every citizen of the Republic of Armenia can apply to the
European Court if he considers that his rights were violated.

Statistics shows that Armenian citizens apply to the European Court
of European of Human Rights more recently than citizens of other
countries.

Every year the Court receives 100 applications from the Republic
of Armenia.

However, the European Court qualifies most of those applications as
unacceptable, since as Judge of the European Court Alvina Gyulumyan
noted, Armenians view the European Court as the court of forth
instance.

"The ECtHR is not a court of fourth instance. It’s a body that defends
the rights consolidated in the European Convention.," she said.

However, the European Court faces one problem. There are hundreds
of thousands of applications, the consideration of which will take
years. That is why applications from Armenia from the years 2003-2004
find their solution only today."

"Fourteen verdicts on Armenia have been returned so far," Alvina
Gyulumyan said.