Legislation Provides Sufficient Conditions for Public Awareness

ARMENIA’S LEGISLATION PROVIDES SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR
PUBLIC AWARENESS

YEREVAN, JULY 6. ARMINFO. Armenia’s legislation provides sufficient
conditions for public awareness, Armenia’s Deputy Justice Minister
Tigran Mukuchyan said during today’s seminar “Transparency of
Government Bodies and Information Accessibility.”

He says that the transparency of a government body implies first of
all full public awareness of its functions this allowing appropriate
assessment of the body’s work and raising its responsibility. A law
on information accessibility has been adopted in Armenia and Justice
Ministry regularly receives requests for information to which it
responds through specially created internet resources. But the law
requires shortest possible response – for this purpose a user should
be given his own code for entering the database and getting the
information he wants.

Poor knowledge of one’s rights is also a serious problem. The
traditional methods of human rights awareness have been exhausted and
so it is necessary to inform citizens where exactly they can get
information. “We need an appropriate culture to make laws operative,”
says Mukuchyan.