No More Complaints About Lack Of Freedom Of Speech?

NO MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT LACK OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

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[07:00 pm] 26 February, 2009

With 97 for, 0 against and 1 neutral, the parliament passed the bill
on changes and additions to the RA law on "Television and Radio"
by the first reading.

This means that even the opposition deputies voted for the bill. In
fact, co-author of the bill, Deputy of the "Heritage" party Anahit
Bakhshyan announced from the NA podium that the committee praised
the bill and proposed to vote for it.

In her speech, Anahit Bakhshyan noted that the bill guarantees
freedom of the press and allows appointment of representatives of
bodies regulating broadcasts to be elected "through democratic and
transparent elections". According to Bakhshyan, the important thing
is that the president of the Commission on Television and Radio is
appointed by the RA President through a contest for a six-year term
and has a number of requirements and limits.

How will this bill solve the issue of "A1+" coming back on air, which
is one of the demands in the PACE Resolution? In response to that,
Bakhshyan said that the bill does not provide the opportunity to solve
that issue. But she informed that a bill is put into circulation by
which they propose to annul the change made in the law passed on
2008 December 10 by which there will be no tenders for television
broadcasts until January 21, 2011 due to digitalization.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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