THOUSANDS OF ARMENIAN CITIZENS REFUSED FROM SOCIAL CARDS
PanArmenian News
Dec 12 2004
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Based on religious and legal reasons thousands
of Armenian citizens refused from social cards. Many of those, who
were forced to get the cards or were deceived to get them, today
convey them to the Armenian Center for Protection of Constitutional
Rights and ask us to return them to the Ministry of Labor and Social
Affairs, as respective services refuse to receive them,” the Center
President Gevorg Manukain noted at a press conference in the House
of Journalists. The requests of 130 citizens are complied. In Gevorg
Manukian’s words a note was received from the Ministry, which reported
that the personal records of the citizens, who refused from social
cards, are blocked. Virtually from January 1, 2005 hundreds of people
can be deprived of minimal means of existence – the opportunity
to get salary and pension. The Armenian Center for Protection of
Constitutional Rights and other human rights organizations state that
further steps on the way of fulfillment of the Law on Social Cards
are fraught with serious consequences.