Friday, June 4 2021 20:10

ArmInfo. The Office of the Human  Rights Defender is working on the concept of a security zone, RA  Ombudsman of Arman Tatoyan said on June 4 in the parliament during  the preliminary discussion of the annual report "On the execution of  the state budget of the Republic of Armenia for 2020".

According to Tatoyan, in connection with the military actions and  post-war developments, the Office is working in a tense regime. Based  on this, as the Ombudsman noted, it is possible that the staff of the  Office are not as consistent in other areas of their activities as  they would have been in previous years. At the same time, there is a  shortage of personnel, and those who work, do so with almost personal  dedication. In this context, Tatoyan considers it necessary to  increase the number of personnel in the Office of the Human Rights  Defender.

According to him, today there is a problem with a misunderstanding of  the role of the Office of the Ombudsman, in connection with which  there are serious problems with the regulations of the civil service  in terms of organizing the work of the Office of the Human Rights  Defender. So, for more than a year it has not been possible to  approve the new staffing table, since the Service offers very low  salaries, according to Tatoyan, inadequate to the scale and level of  work.

The expenses of the HRC Office in 2020 for the implementation of 2  programs and 6 events spent 472 million drams or 91.7% of the  specified program.

To recall, Arman Tatoyan has repeatedly stated that carrying out only  demarcation with Azerbaijan without forming a security zone will  become a pretext for new violations of the rights of citizens of the  Republic of Armenia and tensions.

To note, the activity of the Office of the Human Rights Defender of  Armenia has intensified several times in post-war Armenia, the  citizens of the country have begun to turn to the Ombudsman more  often and with greater confidence than other state institutions. In  particular, according to a survey conducted by the consulting company  MPG (Marketing Professional Group - the exclusive representative of  the International GALLUP Association in Armenia) for May 18, 2021-21  May 2021, during which citizens were asked to assess the activities  of political figures on a 5-point scale, only h Ombudsman of Armenia  Arman Tatoyan, as in the course of the last poll, received an  assessment above average - 3 points.