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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Requirement for workers to take PCR tests at their own expense ‘unconstitutional’, Armenian top court rules

Panorama, Armenia
Dec 23 2021

The Constitutional Court of Armenia ruled that the requirement for workers to undergo Covid-19 testing at their own expense is “unconstitutional”.

The matter concerns the August 20 order of Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan obliging employees to either get vaccinated against Covid-19 or take PCR tests at their own expense every 14 days.

The verdict, read out by Constitutional Court Chairman Arman Dilanyan on Thursday, says that the phrase “at their own expense” in the order runs counter to Parts 1 and 2 of Article 6, as well as Article 39 of the Constitution.

The Hayastan opposition faction in the parliament applied to the top court, challenging the legality of the minister’s decision late in September. Now the Constitutional Court has ruled that employees cannot be required to take periodic coronavirus tests at their own expense.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS