RUBEN TOROSIAN: "CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION DEPRIVE "SUPREME COUNCIL – DEPUTY CLUB" OF RIGHT OF OBSERVATION MISSION IN ILLEGAL WAY
Noyan Tapan
Mar 06 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Central Electoral Commission
(CEC) deprived in quite illegal way the "Supreme Council – Deputy
Club" public organization of the right of implementing observation
mission during the parliamentary elections to be held on May 12,
2007. Organization Chairman Ruben Torosian made such a statement at
the March 6 press conference. In his words, the organization is called
"Supreme Council – Deputy Club," is written with a dash and does
not remind any state body, particularly, the Supreme Council. When
in the CEC decision the NGO name is written in the following way:
"Supreme Council" deputy club what was qualified by the organization
Chairman as a pervertion of the name. So, in R.Torosian’s words, the
reasoning of the CEC that the NGO name does not correspond to demands
of the RA law "On Public Organizations" (the law prohibits using of
"Supreme Council," "National Assembly," "Government" and other names
of state bodies in names of NGOs) is illegal and baseless. Besides,
as the NGO Chairman mentioned a state body with the "Supreme Council"
name does not exist in Armenia at present.