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    OUR PROBLEM IS TO REVEAL SHORTCOMINGS

    Azat Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
    22 Aug 2006

    On August 25 the NKR president signed the decree on setting up the
    Committee on Ethics of Public Officials under the NKR president. The
    chair Murad Petrossian assured in a news conference that the media
    would regularly be informed about the activities of the committee. On
    August 17, the members of the committee met with news reporters. The
    first group of questions was on the activities of the committee and
    its methods. In the beginning, Murad Petrossian stated that a number
    of negative phenomena in our society (including corruption, misuse
    of power, breaking laws) should be perceived as the everyday reality,
    and we should try to help the society evaluate these phenomena duly.
    According to him, this is not a purely local thing. This problem
    persists in developed countries as well. Murad Petrossian believes
    that one of the goals of the committee is to present corruption to the
    society as it is. Murad Petrossian presented the objectives of the
    committee, namely its members must make essential efforts to reveal
    negative phenomena in different spheres. At the same time, they are
    supposed to create a so-called bank of cadres. With regard to timing,
    the chair of the committee said priorities would be outlined after
    a survey in every sphere. Throughout this work contact between the
    committee and the public will be sustained. For further actions,
    Murad Petrossian said they would start with gathering information
    on every sphere and every settlement. "These data will be classifies
    and wait for their turn," he said, adding that efforts will be made
    in cases which will be extremely harmful for the public life. By a
    preliminary plan, the committee will work with several educational
    institutions. Then efforts will be made to battle breaking traffic
    rules by people riding in their own cars, who are left unpunished. In
    answer to the question whether the committee will be able to influence
    the behavior of a non-conscientious official in one way or another, the
    chair of the committee said their goal is to reveal negative phenomena
    and to enable replacement of non-conscientious officials by more
    qualified people. The rest is the problem of other agencies. During the
    news conference the bylaws of the committee were discussed as well,
    namely the staff of the committee is not limited. One needs to be
    known "as an honest person and have the reference of at least three
    of the members of the committee" to be included in the committee. The
    news reporters were not allowed to take part in the second part of
    the meeting, during which "definite cases were to be discussed,"
    the chair of the committee said. He promised to inform the media
    about the findings of the meeting within a month.

    Norair Hovsepian.
    22-08-2006
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