Human rights to be protected in 2016
"If we want Armenia to have an active and efficient system of human rights protection, we have to do everything possible to eliminate the needless bureaucracy and reduce the contacts between citizens and state bodies to a minimum," Secretary of the RA National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan declared during parliamentary hearings at the National Assembly today.
The inter-departmental committee of the RA National Security Council presented the draft of "National Strategy for the Protection of Human Rights" to the NA standing committee on human rights protection and public affairs. According to experts, people can "enjoy" the results of that strategy only in 2016.
"The society has to sense this important document, and that will only happen in the case of necessary participation of all interested forces," RA Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan said during the hearings.
The Ombudsman said the draft had quality, but wasn't perfect. According to the Secretary of the National Security Council, there is one thing standing in the way of reaching perfection.
"In many cases, we have laws and sub-legislative acts that stimulate violations of the Human Rights Defender. The current ambiguous formulations give way to misunderstanding."
To eliminate the flaws in legislation and to improve the draft of the strategy, he called on making adequate proposals and presenting the draft for Serzh Sargsyan's ratification in January 2012 only after working on those proposals.
