WAS KOCHARYAN UNAWARE OF CONSTITUTION?
Sedrak Baghdasaryan, resident of Buzand Street, the chair of Protection for Victims of State Needs, Democracy NGO, said in an interview with our news reporter that they wrote over 10 letters to Robert Kocharyan telling him about the destructive consequences of the development of the Center of Yerevan. Robert Kocharyan did not answer any of these letters, however. Moreover, even the Kocharyan administration did not answer. Sedrak Baghdasaryan says the letter was sent to the government, from the government to the City Hall, from the City Hall to the Office of Program Implementation. “My impression is that the best-educated, the smartest person in our country is the head of the OPI.”
However, it is at least strange that the OPI answers the last letter. The letter was written May 26, 2006, in other words, after the decision of the Constitutional Court recognizing it unconstitutional. The victims of the state needs reminded Robert Kocharyan that the head of state must guarantee observation of the Constitution and punish its violation. The victims of state want to know why the president signed an unconstitutional decision. Robert Kocharyan declined to answer, which means that either he does not consider him president of people, or he thinks it is not worthwhile to answer people.
R. Harutiunyan, the head of the OPI who answered the letter, informed the victims of state needs that the president signed the decision of the government in 2002, whereas the Constitutional Court defined it as unconstitutional in 2006. “The person who signed the decision could not foresee that these would be considered as against the unconstitution.” This is not a misprint. Either R. Harutiunyan has discovered a new legal, though not so logical category, or he is a little careless. Both are bad for R. Harutiunyan, who was charged with the important task of writing a letter on behalf of the president.
And if R. Harutiunyan wants to say that the person who ratified the decision could not predict that these decisions would be considered unconstitutional, which is the same as incompliant with the constitution, not knowing the law does not free from punishment. After this decision of the Constitutional Court the chamber of civilian cases of the Court of Appeal led by Arman Mkrtumyan did not try the case of the victims of public needs, in other words, it neglected the decision of the Constitutional Court.
BETWEEN CITING PLEBES AND UNITY
The people of Karabakh can be calm. The plebiscite which was circulated by the new foreign minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan is not so bad a thing. It is the same referendum, which the new foreign ...PUBLIC INVESTIGATION OF MARCH 1 CRIME
1The Association of Political Scientists of Armenia holds the first public session of the forum on the issue of independent public investigation of March 1 crime on June 6 at the conference hall of the ...DIALOGUE IS POSSIBLE AFTER RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
On June 4 the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan met with the delegation led by Hugh Mingarelli, the director of the EU Directorate General for External Relations, at his mansion. During the ...HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN’S QUESTION WAS NOT DISCUSSED
The Republican Party has not considered nomination of Hovik Abrahamyan as speaker of parliament, said the spokesman for the Republican Party Edward Sharmazanov on June 5 at the Friday Club. He also said ...POLITICAL WILL SHOULD BE NOTICED
The government displays political will to implement the PACE resolution 1609, says the spokesman for the Republican Party Edward Sharmazanov who was hosted at the Friday Club on June 5. “I would recommend ...HOW MANY PROXIES OF SERGE SARGSYAN HAVE PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
A few days ago the court sentenced three people who had raided shops on Mashtots Street during the events of March 1. The press reported that these people were Serge Sargsyan’s authorized persons during ...BOILER OF HEALTHY IDEAS
The Public Council is going to be a boiler of healthy ideas and proposals, said the spokesman for the Republican Party, Member of Parliament Edward Sharmazanov on June 5 at the Friday Club. In this connection ...WHAT RESPONSIBILITY ROBERT KOCHARYAN ASSUMED
Republican Member of Parliament Edward Sharmazanov, the spokesman for the Republican Party, stated June 5 at the Friday Club that the Republican Party never reneges on its ideas, and since 1999 it has ...AS CHARLES DE GAULLE SAID
As Charles de Gaulle said, the government is responsible for everything happening in the country. On June 5 the spokesman for the Republican Party, Member of Parliament Edward Sharmazanov quoted the ex-president ...DETERMINED FOR SECOND GENERATION REFORM
On June 5 the foreign minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan met with the deputy director general of the EU Directorate General of External Relations Hugh Mingarelli. Nalbandyan underlined that Armenia ...DOES THE HEAD OF CUSTOMS COMMITTEE OWN BUSINESS?
Today Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited the State Customs Committee and introduced the new head of the Committee Gagik Khachatryan to the staff. The prime minister said in introducing him: “I would ...ARMENIA AN AREA OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
Doctor Karine Danielyan, academician of the International Environment Academy, president of the Association for Sustainable Development, stated today that Armenia is turning into an area of environmental ...EU ADVISES TO AUTHORIZE THE RALLY
The director of the EU Directorate General of External Relations Hugh Mingarelli visiting Yerevan stated today that the EU advises the Armenian government to permit the opposition to hold the rally on ...RESPONSIBILITY PLACED ON CHIEF OF POLICE
On June 5, during the parliamentary hearing on the extraordinary report of the ombudsman on the pre-election and post-election developments, namely March 1, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan made a ...HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER OPPOSED TO OFFENSIVE
The issue of the parliamentary hearings organized by the Committee of Human Rights and the Committee of European Integration on June 5 was the extraordinary report of the ombudsman on March 1 events in ...U.S. EMBASSY HOLDS SEVENTH ANNUAL AMERICAN JAZZ IN ARMENIA PROGRAM
The U.S. Embassy in Armenia is proud to announce that it will hold its seventh annual American Jazz in Armenia celebration during June 4-10, 2008. American tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi and his quintet ...
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA, SERZH SARGSIAN
GOVERNMENT WILL AUDIT INADEQUATE BUSINESSES
COUNCIL OF EUROPE IS NOT POLITBURO AND TIZBON
WHERE WERE THE REFORMERS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION?
NEW CHIEF OF THE POLICE WAS APPOINTED
HEAD OF CUSTOMS SERVICE WAS APPOINTED
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
GRIGOR AMALYAN WANTS INDEPENDENCE
SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN: IT IS NECESSARY TO PREPARE FOR ELECTIONS SERIOUSLY
ARSEN KHARATYAN WAS ASSAULTED
- 1818 Birth of Gevorg Hakhverdyan (philologist) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1861.
- 1860 Constantinople's National General Assembly adopts (and the Patriarch ratifies) the National Constitution of Western Armenia.
- 1921 Stalin, through the illegal decision of the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, separates Artsakh (Mountainous Gharabagh) from Armenia and forcibly annexes it to Azerbaijan.
ARMENIAN NEWS
INTERACTIVE NEWS
INFORMATION
MY ARMTOWN
How to quit smoking?
How to write in Armenian on Windows XP?
All materials published on this website are taken from open sources and are copyrighted by their respective owners. You cannot reproduce or copy any materials published on armtown.com without written consent of original copyright holder. If you want to remove any material, please send us an email with proof of ownership/copyright and your material will be removed immediately. All materials published for information purposes only.