“EUROPEAN COURT WILL MAKE DECISION ON “A1+” CASE SOON”

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“The European Court on Human Rights is currently discussing the appeal of “A1+”. Thus, the dialogue between the European Court and the RA Government is going on and very soon the Court will make a final decision on the claim”, informed Alvina Gyulumyan, who represents Armenia at the European Court.

Mrs Gyulumyan doubted to mention the concrete term of the decision. The European Court currently discusses the claims of the former owners of the North Avenue and Buzand Street and “Jehovah’s Witnesses” together with the Armenian Government. The Court also examines the case of Ruben Tororsyan, Chairman of the “General Assembly of Deputy Club” NGO, regarding the 2003 elections. Mrs Gyulumyan also informed that the European Court discusses the case of Murad Bojoyan who was accused of betraying the native land. Alvina Gyulumyan promised to talk about each case in detail at the conference “International experience of the cooperation between Constitutional Courts and Ombudsmen in the field of ensuring and Protection of Human Rights".

The European court has receives 479 appeals from Armenia since Armenia’s access to the Council of Europe. This is not the final number since 617 appeals were received from Azerbaijani citizens against Armenia regarding their refugee status. 214 appeals were not included in the list of the cases against Armenia.

Recently the European Court has received 32 new appeals, which have not been studied yet. 87 cases are waiting for the discussion of the Committee, 22 – for the discussion of the Assembly, the RA Government and the European Court are negotiating on 42 cases and the Court is waiting for a respond, then it will decide to examine the cases or not. Today the Court has made a final decision only on one case from Armenia, released verdicts on 2 cases.

233 appeals from Armenia were recognized inadmissible by the Court, 7 were dismissed from the list and 52 applicants were not consistent and did not fill in all necessary documents. The European Court did not admit the claims of those who regarded the Court as a 4-th instance. In Alvina Gyulumyan’s opinion, some RA citizens have wrong imagination about the European Court and raise issues that are not related to the European Convention on Human Rights.