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    No disagreements between opposition, civil society

    14:28 * 01.03.15
    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/03/01/artak-zeinalyan/1604515


    Human rights activist Artak Zeinalyan does not see any disagreements
    between the Opposition and civil society.

    "Nothing bad if the political opposition attempts to get dividends
    from civil initiatives' actions or vice versa, nothing bad about it,"
    Mr Zeinalyan told Tert.am.

    Armenia's civil society would have succeeded greatly but for the
    authorities' resistance.

    "The more active is political opposition the greater are civil
    movements' achievements. If there is no political opposition, it
    happens like in Azerbaijan: the political opposition has been done
    away with, and human rights activities and journalists have turned
    into targets," he said.

    Speaking of a number of protests, Mr Zeinalyan said:

    "They were spontaneous actions resulting from civil society's demands.
    We have no efficient election mechanisms and authorities are
    independent of election results nor are they serving the people for
    their accountability to produce good results."

    According to him, protests achieved their aims.

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