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    Human Rights Defender urged Armenian citizens not to sell their votes
    during the elections

    February 1, 2008

    Yerevan /Mediamax/. Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Armen Harutiunian
    urged today the Armenian citizens not to sell their votes during the
    presidential elections on February 19.

    Mediamax reports that, speaking at a briefing in Yerevan today, he
    noted that `if the elections are based not on ideas, but on bribing the
    electors, we will get a system, in which it will be simply meaningless
    talking about human rights'.

    The Ombudsman believes that `the political force, which buys votes,
    will have no moral commitments for the people, will not be interested
    in the improvement of the social-economic situation, and will not be
    assisting the real protection of civil liberties'.

    `Our citizens should stand up for their votes, their voting right',
    Armen Harutiunian stressed.

    He informed that there is a `Hotline' functioning under the Office of
    the Ombudsman, with the help of which the electors, the trustees and
    the observers may present their complaints.

    The `Hotline' is functioning by the following telephone numbers:
    53-76-51, 53-92-71, 53-88-31, 53-76-34, 53-85-77, 091 00-88-17, 091
    28-02-06.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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