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STATEMENT by co-chairs of the EU-Armenia Civil Society Platform established under the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement   21.09.2022 On 13 September 2022, Azerbaijani armed forces launched an offensive on the sovereign territory of Armenia, directly targeting the eastern and south-eastern border towns of Goris, Kapan, Jermuk, Vardenis and Sotk and a number of bordering villages, and attacking both military and civilian targets indiscriminately. As a result of this attack, the number of killed and

On the War of Russia against Ukraine   March 4, 2022   On February 23, 2022 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special military operation in Donbas, which was followed by a large-scale attack on Ukraine by the Russian armed forces in several directions. The hostilities continue up until now, causing a large number of casualties, wounded, refugees, environmental, economic and cultural disaster, and a destruction of an

An organization, which does not have official access to the procedural, non-public, restricted documents of the Venice Commission, published the protocol part related to the Republic of Armenia, which was presented during the plenary session of the Venice Commission on July 15 of 2019. According to the highlights of the translated version of the protocol, (…) 1. The RA authorities accepted that the current vetting process is neither necessary nor useful. 3. The wording “judge”-“member” of the

The Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF ANP) expresses its deep concern with regard to the crisis over the RA Constitutional Court (CC). Without commenting on the well-known contradictions in the statements of the newly elected judge Vahe Grigoryan and members of the Court, we state the following.  For many years, the Armenian judiciary, including the Constitutional Court, has not enjoyed public trust, has failed to meet the standards

On 17.07.2016 the RA National Security Service (NSS) issued a statement informing the Armenian public that earlier on the same day an armed group had seized the premises of the Patrol Service Regiment of the RA Police and taken some police officers as hostages. The armed group calling themselves “Sasna Tsrer” (the Daredevils of Sassoun) has put forward certain demands, including the resignation of the incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, release of Zhirayr Sefilyan, leader of

On 19 February, 2016, Vardges Gaspari was detained on the basis of the unlawful decision of the General Jurisdiction Court of Shengavit Administrative District of Yerevan. Anahit Ayvazi, Gaspari’s wife has not been given a permission to meet with her husband so far. Today, on 24 February, Gaspari has been taken to “Norq” psychiatric centre to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination. Tigran Yegoryan and David Gyurjyan, Gaspari’s attorneys hurried to the psychiatric centre to participate

During its June 9-10, 2015 session the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter: the Committee) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (hereinafter: the PACE) recommended “by a narrow majority, the candidature of Mr. Armen Harutyunyan, over that of the candidature of Ms. Liana Hakobyan, as the most qualified candidate”[1] for the position of a judge to the ECtHR in respect of Armenia”. The Human

The human rights non-governmental organization “Europe in Law Association” (hereinafter: ELA) submitted a letter to the Administration of the RA Ministry of Justice (hereinafter: the Administration) within its observation mission of the selection of the candidates for the Armenian judge to the European Court of Human Rights, requesting a permission to get familiarized with the documents submitted by the candidates, the log maintained by the Administration to register the submitted applications, as well as to