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SPEAKER OF THE ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT: THERE IS NO STATE IN EUROPE WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS WERE BROKEN AT LEAST ONCE
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2007
ArmInfo. 'There is no state in Europe where human rights where
broken at least once', - speaker of the Armenian parliament Tigran
Torosyan said at the two-day international conference 'The role of
the Constitutional Court and Human Rights Defender in human rights
protection issues' opened in Yerevan today.
The conference is organized by the joint efforts of Constitutional
Court of Armenia, Armenian Ombudsman office and the European Commission
'Democracy via law'. Representatives of constitutional courts of more
than 30 European states are taking part in the conference. President
of the European Court on Human rights Jean-Paul Costa and Secretary
General of Venice Commission of the Council of Europe Gianni Buquicchio
made a greeting speech at the conference.
Tigran Torosyan emphasized that after making amendments to the Armenian
Constitution ordinary citizens of Armenia gained an opportunity to
apply to the Constitutional Court. Just close parallel activity of
the three structures - constitutional court, parliament and ombudsman
office can effectively resolve the problem of ensuring and human
rights protection, Torosyan said.
To note, a scandal happened at the beginning of the conference,
as its organizers did not take the number of the participants into
account, as a result of which not only journalists but also deputy
Russian ambassador to Armenia could not get earphones and listen to
translations. The latter was loudly expressing his indignation until
getting earphones. As for the journalists, the majority of them relied
on their knowledge of foreign languages.
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2007
ArmInfo. 'There is no state in Europe where human rights where
broken at least once', - speaker of the Armenian parliament Tigran
Torosyan said at the two-day international conference 'The role of
the Constitutional Court and Human Rights Defender in human rights
protection issues' opened in Yerevan today.
The conference is organized by the joint efforts of Constitutional
Court of Armenia, Armenian Ombudsman office and the European Commission
'Democracy via law'. Representatives of constitutional courts of more
than 30 European states are taking part in the conference. President
of the European Court on Human rights Jean-Paul Costa and Secretary
General of Venice Commission of the Council of Europe Gianni Buquicchio
made a greeting speech at the conference.
Tigran Torosyan emphasized that after making amendments to the Armenian
Constitution ordinary citizens of Armenia gained an opportunity to
apply to the Constitutional Court. Just close parallel activity of
the three structures - constitutional court, parliament and ombudsman
office can effectively resolve the problem of ensuring and human
rights protection, Torosyan said.
To note, a scandal happened at the beginning of the conference,
as its organizers did not take the number of the participants into
account, as a result of which not only journalists but also deputy
Russian ambassador to Armenia could not get earphones and listen to
translations. The latter was loudly expressing his indignation until
getting earphones. As for the journalists, the majority of them relied
on their knowledge of foreign languages.