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Today the Judge's Union said «Yes» unanimously (according to David Avetisyan who presided over the session) to the Constitutional reforms. Today there were 174 members of the Union in the Government session hall in order to find out the attitude of the judicial branch of power to the draft constitution.

According to the RA Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan, «It is high time we revised our approach to the independence of judicial power». The Minister expressed disappointment that the draft fails to refer to several extremely important issues. He did not mentioned which one exactly he means, but mentioned his liking for another clause of the draft – that of the sovereignty of the judicial power.

Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan mentioned that “It is not possible to speak about the defense of human rights in Armenia as there are problems with free and fair court processes”. Nevertheless, according to her, “the work is mainly positive”. At the end of the speech Mrs. Alaverdyan greeted the members of the Union as her future colleagues.

According to the Head of the Court of Appeal Hovhannes Manoukyan, the issue of constitutional reforms rose because of human rights. He said that from the judicial point of view the draft constitution is almost ideal.

And judge of the RA Economic Court Anatoly Matevosyan voiced hope that the referendum «will be held free, fair and without forgeries». «I call everyone to say «Yes» to the draft and to participate actively in the preaching», he said.

By the way, today the judges and the members of the Union also discussed the Judge manners code where there are such lines, «The Judge has to take measures to enrich his knowledge».