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A LONGED-FOR GUARANTEE?
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24770.html
Published: 23:44:01 - 10/01/2012
Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree to approve the staff of the Committee
of Ethics of High-Ranking Officials. Meeting with the members of the
Committee, Serzh Sargsyan said that their activities will include
analysis and publication of declarations on the property and income
of high-ranking officials, detection of conflicts of interest and
violations of rules of ethics, as well as other functions.
The committee is important, indeed, considering who the high-ranking
officials in Armenia are, at least their 99.99%, the standards and
"merits" that made them such, their behavior, their wealth. They have
immense possessions, misusing their official position, committing
different crimes and unlawfulness, engaging in the sophisticated
schemes of corruption, ranging from misuse of the public budget to
becoming "shareholders" of different companies.
In this situation, the amount of work to be done by the committee
of ethics is huge, if the committee is certainly going to cover the
scope mentioned by Serzh Sargsyan. However, judging by the experience
of other committees and councils, this committee will deal with
laundering their property and legitimizing their behavior.
The Committee of Ethics is brand new and has done nothing yet
and may not do anything at all because after its establishment
the Armenian high-ranking officials may be more cautious to avoid
scandals and showing off. It is not ruled out that by establishing
a similar committee Serzh Sargsyan offers the so-called "longed for"
guarantees, setting his rules and logic of the game. The system lacked
these guarantees in the past few years and without them has become
an amorphous and dangerous threat for the government.
In other words, January 10 is officially an "amnesty day" and the
ground zero to set out again.
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24770.html
Published: 23:44:01 - 10/01/2012
Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree to approve the staff of the Committee
of Ethics of High-Ranking Officials. Meeting with the members of the
Committee, Serzh Sargsyan said that their activities will include
analysis and publication of declarations on the property and income
of high-ranking officials, detection of conflicts of interest and
violations of rules of ethics, as well as other functions.
The committee is important, indeed, considering who the high-ranking
officials in Armenia are, at least their 99.99%, the standards and
"merits" that made them such, their behavior, their wealth. They have
immense possessions, misusing their official position, committing
different crimes and unlawfulness, engaging in the sophisticated
schemes of corruption, ranging from misuse of the public budget to
becoming "shareholders" of different companies.
In this situation, the amount of work to be done by the committee
of ethics is huge, if the committee is certainly going to cover the
scope mentioned by Serzh Sargsyan. However, judging by the experience
of other committees and councils, this committee will deal with
laundering their property and legitimizing their behavior.
The Committee of Ethics is brand new and has done nothing yet
and may not do anything at all because after its establishment
the Armenian high-ranking officials may be more cautious to avoid
scandals and showing off. It is not ruled out that by establishing
a similar committee Serzh Sargsyan offers the so-called "longed for"
guarantees, setting his rules and logic of the game. The system lacked
these guarantees in the past few years and without them has become
an amorphous and dangerous threat for the government.
In other words, January 10 is officially an "amnesty day" and the
ground zero to set out again.