Substitute
M.P.
"My Step" Alliance Faction
National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
AM - 0095 - Yerevan
Armenia
Working language: English
14/01/2021 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteur on death penalty expresses deep regret at US federal execution of Lisa Montgomery 02/07/2020 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Pandemics and states of emergency: there should and need not be any tension between effectiveness and legality 30/04/2020 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights COVID-19: Committee chairs discuss the pandemic, human rights and the rule of law with Council of Europe experts
30/01/2020 | 19:14:25 Mister President, honorable colleagues, First of all, let me thank the rapporteurs for their work. I would just like to share some thoughts about the Armenian experience. After the snap elections we held in 2018, we got a democratic capital, which we are intending to use for increasing the level of democracy in Armenia. I would just like to say that the constitutional commission was created, consisting of the representatives of all parliamentarian groups, consisting of the academics... 30/01/2020 | 11:41:26 Dear colleagues. As a lawyer, as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights I cannot keep silence on this issue. Let me first of all thank the rapporteur for her excellent work. The Council of Europe should be the territory free of political prisoners since their existence is the greatest challenge to the very existence of the Council of Europe undermining its values and principles. From the very beginning of Azerbaijan's membership in the Council of Europe, it has made... 30/01/2020 | 10:49:38 Mr Chairman, dear colleagues, In accordance with article 77 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention, children shall be the object of special respect and shall be protected against any form of indecent assault. Children are one of the rare categories of the victims of war who are getting special protection under international humanitarian law, both customary and statutory. Nobody has challenged that children, along with the elders, women and infirm persons, are the most... 02/10/2019 | 10:38:31 Honourable Chair, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen. The ombudsman institution is a relatively new phenomenon in our contemporary political life. Well-established and functioning in some Western democracies -- and for sure in Scandinavia -- we are new members for the Eastern Europe and post-Soviet area. Nevertheless, despite the short history of ombudsmen institutions, it became the crucial pillar for the protection of human rights in those countries. Armenia is not an exception here. The... 10/04/2019 | 16:26:35 The verbal expression of hatred – hate speech – is the root cause of the huge range of crimes that are based on intolerance, discrimination, xenophobia and racism. Its very existence poses a great danger and a great question for democratic society, the protection of human rights and the rule of law. Hate speech is extremely dangerous, especially when it is a precursor for the planning and perpetration of genocide, and other crimes against humanity. It tends to humiliate, stigmatise, degrade...
16/09/2020 | Doc. 15139 | Report The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on human rights and the rule of law
02/11/2020 | Doc. 15175 | Motion for a resolution Which measures can States legally take under the European Convention on Human Rights in order to crack down on Islamic extremism? 05/02/2020 | Doc. 15080 | Motion for a resolution How to move forward to make businesses more responsible for human rights abuses? 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15065 | Written declaration Call for opinion on the Venice Commission regarding the situation of dismissed public servants in Turkey 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15064 | Written declaration Baku pogroms 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15058 | Written declaration Condemnation of attempts at Second World War revisionism
30/01/2020 | Doc. 15055, vote on the draft text for resolution International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15055, vote on the draft text for recommendation International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for recommendation Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15031, vote on the draft text for resolution The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2019)