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RAMPS TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 7 ARMENIAN CITIES FOR DISABLED PERSONS' PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS
Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. With the assistance of the USAID, ramps
will constructed in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Stepanavan, Spitak,
Chambarak and Goris. Thus 9 polling stations in these cities will be
accessible to voters, who move in wheel-chairs, during the upcoming
parliamentary elections. According to a press release submitted to
NT by the "Paros" center for educational and cultural development of
disabled persons, in Armenia polling stations are mainly inaccessible
to voters with disability, which contradict the principle of equal
suffrage stipulated by the RA Constitution and the RA Electoral Code.
Construction of ramps is part of the program "Participation of
Disabled Persons in Electoral and Civil Processes" implemented by
"Paros". Within the framework of the program, discussions and meetings
are held, patterns and "speaking" books are prepared and distributed
to blind voters, etc.
Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. With the assistance of the USAID, ramps
will constructed in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Stepanavan, Spitak,
Chambarak and Goris. Thus 9 polling stations in these cities will be
accessible to voters, who move in wheel-chairs, during the upcoming
parliamentary elections. According to a press release submitted to
NT by the "Paros" center for educational and cultural development of
disabled persons, in Armenia polling stations are mainly inaccessible
to voters with disability, which contradict the principle of equal
suffrage stipulated by the RA Constitution and the RA Electoral Code.
Construction of ramps is part of the program "Participation of
Disabled Persons in Electoral and Civil Processes" implemented by
"Paros". Within the framework of the program, discussions and meetings
are held, patterns and "speaking" books are prepared and distributed
to blind voters, etc.