Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the event dedicated to the 20th anniversary of establishing the Office of the Human Rights Defender. The President of the Republic, Vahagn Khachaturyan, the President of the National Assembly, Alen Simonyan, legislators, executives, other members of judicial bodies, and representatives of international organizations were also present.
In his speech, the Prime Minister congratulated the Institute of Human Rights Defender on its 20th anniversary and emphasized its importance. According to Nikol Pashinyan, the Institute of Human Rights is an institute in complex coordinates because the opposition usually has its own ideas about Human Rights, which have peculiarities and characteristics, and the Government has its own ideas about Human Rights, which also usually has peculiarities and characteristics, the public has Human Rights. his ideas about, which have peculiarities and features."However, I want to emphasize that the independence of the HRD institution is essential for the RA Government. I will also answer why it is important because I said a little while ago that sometimes there are nuances here.
I must record that the independence of that institution cannot be unimportant for the Government guided by democracy for a simple reason that sometimes the Government, the management team, the executive bodies, various bodies may not notice many subtleties, do not give many subtleties the importance that they have from the offices. And beyond official agendas. Many things cannot be seen because it is under the impression that the Government has the ability and desire to control everyone and everywhere, but this is not the case," said the Prime Minister, adding that sometimes the Government is independent of the results and consequences of its activities. There is a need to receive signals from the sources, especially when it comes to human rights, freedoms, justice, legality, issues that are on the Government's primary agenda, issues that the Government won the elections twice by promoting and promoting :
According to the Prime Minister, "it is important how these obligations and reforms take place." My Government and I have discussed the need for standards in this regard.
I do not know how compatible it is, but it is also essential to have two standards of law and justice because statutes must have a standard, and justice must also have a standard. When I say that the attitude of the citizens towards various state institutions is the same, the activity of the Human Rights Defender is very different.
But we must have a standard of rights so that we can also explain it to people. We must not forget that we finally started dealing with human rights after the collapse of the Soviet Union as a result of gaining independence, when an entire generation grew up with essentially, if not the absence of rights, but a severe curtailment. When, as a result of the collapse, law, and democracy appeared in the primary position, legitimacy was often forgotten from the position of law itself. In many cases, duty has been overlooked from the position of the right itself because, once upon a time, people had duties and not rights; the result of this change is that you have rights and no responsibilities. And it should not be condemned because this is, in some sense, a natural response to a crisis. You have no rights and only responsibilities. Then, it turns out to be wrong. Therefore, the opposite of wrong is correct: You have rights and no duties," Nikol Pashinyan noted, adding that the standard of law and justice is an essential tool that has not yet been made a reality.
According to the Prime Minister, the Institute of the Defender of Human Rights independence is one of the critical intersections where this process should take place; after all, we should have a standard of law so that we can avoid confusion, including not using legality to deprive people of their rights."I didn't want to say it to limit people's rights because the right itself also includes a specific limitation that refers to the rights of others.
Therefore, I attach great importance to the fact that we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Human Rights Defender's institution not just as a birthday but with such a conference, where, of course, I am sure that a significant part of the issues I mentioned will be discussed. And I am sure that this discussion will contribute to further developing the Human Rights Defender Institute in the Republic of Armenia," Nikol Pashinyan noted.
