THE AUTHORITIES HAVE NO WILL POWER
Support A1+!On the initiative of the “Cooperation for the sake of Open Society” a round table was organized today with the theme of the RA Law about “Organizing meetings, marches and demonstrations”. A suchlike discussion was also held last year when the organizers and the participants underlined that they are not satisfied with the current legislative situation and offer to immediately improve the Law.
A year has passed, but no points have been changed in the Law, points most of which do not correspond to the RA Constitution and the Human Rights Convention. Ileyn Konkievich, deputy head of the OSCE Yerevan office was also present at today’s discussion. He is surprised by the fact that the NA has taken no legislative initiative by now.
Why? We asked this question RA Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan. In the OSCE resolution adopted last October the responsibility of changing the law was imposed on the RA Government. Avoiding answering the main question the Minister hinted that it is these discussions that will bring us to legislative initiatives.
“I would like to share the optimist of the Minister if the offers which sounded here are included in the legislative initiative without violations. But this is where I seriously doubt the will power of our authorities as the offers sounding here have been sounding for a long time. I do not see the will power in the NA”, this was what Vardan Pogosyan said in answer to David Haroutyunyan.
