SESSION OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL UNDER PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA HELD
ArmInfo
2008-10-13 11:17:00
ArmInfo. Session of the National Security Council under the president
of Armenia was held. The session was conducted by Head of the Council –
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
As the presidential press service told ArmInfo today, S. Sargsyan
required to assure high efficiency of judicial-legal reforms. Her
said there is a serious discontent with the courts in the country,
and the legislative reforms, towards which essential steps have
already been done, are insufficient for enhancement of the courts’
role. ‘I have marked already that fight against legal corruption and
bribery is of special importance’, the president said. Henceforth,
the public trust to the system and not the length of the list of
the specific steps done will be an indicator for him to assess the
course of the judicial-legal reforms, S. Sargsyan said. ‘I claim that
the president’s administration will periodically order the relevant
specialized polls that will allow us to understand not only the level
of the public trust to the judicial system at present, but also the
dynamics of this indicator changes’, Armenia’s president said.
He also said that conclusions on the efficiency of the laws and
normative documents being adopted, the staff policy, the steps aimed at
corruption-fight, system solutions, increase of the judges’ salaries
should be drawn just based on this dynamic. ‘We should bring the
judicial-legal reforms to the logical end, that supposes formation of
such a system which will facilitate fulfillment of the persons’ rights
for judicial recourse’, the president said. Guarantee of the judges’
independence will enhance the role and importance of the institute
of legal protection, consequently, the efficiency of fulfillment of
rights for such a protection, S. Sargsyan said.
He added that the judicial system and its structure should meet
the interests of the society and justice, as well as balance
them. According to S. Sargsyan, it is necessary to achieve for every
man, when applying to the court or appealing against a judicial
act, to be initially enabled to realize the possible result and the
consequences within reason. ‘That is, the structure and the system
should be such as to balance the society’s requirements with the
interests of the justice’, the president said. He emphasized that a
great volume of work is expected and added that this is the system
which does not admit tardiness or unserious attitude. ‘I have already
talked of the relevant will, now it is the time for actions and I
expect specific results’, Armenia’s president emphasized and added
that this problem will be in the center of attention of the National
Security Council.
S. Sargsyan instructed the participants in the session to initiate
wide professional and public discussions on judicial-legal reforms.