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    ROUND TABLE CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION OF OBLIGATIONS UNDERTAKEN WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF AARHUS CONVENTION BY ARMENIA ON ISSUE OF DALMA GARDENS TO BE ORGANIZED IN MAY

    Noyan Tapan
    May 02 2006

    YEREVAN, MAY 2, NOYAN TAPAN. A round table concerning implementation of
    obligations undertaken within the framework of the Aarhus convention
    by Armenia in the process of building of Dalma gardens will be held
    in Yerevan on May 10. Representatives of the "Center for Regional
    Development" ("Transparency International-Armenia"), "Human Rights
    Protection Armenian Center after Sakharov" and "Armenian Botanical
    Society" public organizations informed about it at the April 28
    press-conference. Representatives of the RA Government and the Yerevan
    Mayor's Office are invited to the round table being organized by the
    above-mentioned NGOs. Participants of the press-conference informed
    that by its April 7, 2006 expert's conclusion, the Aarhus Convention
    Compliance Committee recongized the Armenian authorities' actions
    relating to the request concerning Dalma gardens not corresponding to
    a number of articles of the Aarhus Convention. At the same time the
    committee presented proposals to the RA Government on the occasion
    of stimulating usage of principles of the Aarhus Convention. The
    committee, at the same time, proposes to undertake practical and
    legislative events in the direction of solving existing problems of
    accessibility of information relating to environment, to secure the
    practical usage of processes of society's participation in all levels
    of making decisions, to undertake corresponding practical events in the
    direction of securing accesibility of justice, etc. The conclusion was
    made in responce to 3 NGOs' application sent in 2004. The application
    touches upon problems of accesibility of information and public
    participation in processes of making decision by the RA Government on
    the occasion of change of purposeful meaning of lands and tenancy of
    some plots of Dalma gardens of Yerevan. According to conclusion of the
    committee, by not giving corresponding information to applicants by
    bodies implementing functions of public management, Armenia violated
    principles of Article 4 of the convention, and by not securing
    complete participation of the society in the process of concrete
    decisions concerning building, it partly violated principles of
    a number of other articles of the convention. The RA Government
    violated principles of the convention as well, not securing the right
    of interested representatives of the society to apply for court
    examination. To recap, before addressing to the Aarhus Convention
    Compliance Committee, the Yerevan Court of First Instance of Kentron
    and Nork-Marash communities refused to accept the claim of NGOs to
    recognize the RA Government's decisions invalid because of their
    not corresponding to the Aarhus Convention, and the RA Court of
    Cassations Chamber on Economic and Civil Cases left the complaint of
    the organizations concerning overturning the above-mentioned decision
    without upholding.
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