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    "ANOTHER BLUFF, WHICH WILL NOT BE SUCCESSFUL," ABOUT THE CONSULTATION CONVENED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

    http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/30/125267/
    October 30, 2012 16:56

    During a consultation regarding preliminary investigation of criminal
    cases in the Attorney General's Office with the participation
    of representatives of law-enforcements bodies, President Serzh
    Sargsyan talked about concrete issues, which exist in the attorney
    system. The President put forward some facts during the consultation,
    which testify to the drawbacks in the above-mentioned system. Then he
    stated, "And these are only some of the cases revealed. Can anyone
    explain to me how such an atmosphere can exist in a law-enforcement
    body, in the first place? So this means that some people have become
    impudent. If a regional attorney's deputy thinks that he can do such a
    thing, I cannot think otherwise." During a conversation with a set of
    human rights advocates, www.aravot.am tried to find out whether clear
    intention had been noticed during that consultation in terms of solving
    problems or it had been done just for the election. Vardan Harutyunyan,
    the director of the Center for Freedom and Rights, noted, "This is a
    step taken just for the presidential election. Serzh Sargsyan wants
    to create an image of his struggling against illegality, corruption,
    abuse of power alone like Don Quixote.

    Certainly, one shouldn't believe this. The assessments that

    were made were also important. At the end of the day, he holds the
    office of the President of the Republic of Armenia and his assessments
    of the attorney system are important. The Attorney General's Office was
    given carte blanche for his coming to power. The whole legal system,
    law-enforcement bodies had the right to do anything, they just had
    to serve reproduction and establishment of Serzh Sargsyan's rule.

    Let us remember political trials, persecution of people by the
    prosecution bodies and law-enforcement bodies. He mows what he sowed.

    He allowed them to abuse power, engage in illegal actions and he
    tries to make an impression that something is fixed. It can only be
    called another bluff, which will not be successful. They may fire and
    try one or two of those who are the most vulnerable, but corruption
    in the system will not be eliminated, the system will not change,
    since all that is led by the President of the Republic of Armenia."

    Human rights advocate Artak Zeynalyan gave the following assessment,
    "The problems, which he talks about, are a small part of really
    existing problems. Counselors dealing with criminal cases and legal
    successors of aggrieved persons in every case have been shouting
    about that from the rooftops for the past 20 years or at least the
    past decade. I accept that the issues raised during that consultation
    exist, but I would very much like it to have a result and something
    to be changed. However, the hero of that consultation was not the
    person who had violated the law. It was very abstract. If the court
    didn't convince me, it may fail to convince the President too, since
    he is an onlooker too. Whereas one of the most important functions
    of the court is that the ruling is convincing."

    Talking about the consultation held by the President of the Republic of
    Armenia again, Mr. Zeynalyan noted, "There were no victims of March 1,
    Vahan Khalafyan, Ghulyan, there were no specific people whose rights
    had been violated. I would like to believe that this consultation
    will have some effect. However, I didn't see there the interests of
    the victim whose rights had been violated. It wasn't noticeable that
    there was no corpus delicti in the Vartan Oskanian case, and if one
    of four elements of the crime is not there, there is no crime."

    In conclusion, A. Zeynalyan said, "The consultation may be perceived
    as expression of good wishes, some pre-election step."

    Tatev HARUTYUNYAN

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