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    RA Prosecutor General's Office: Ombudsman's statement is purely a
    self-affirmation attempt

    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=101292 2

    YEREVAN, MARCH 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Responding to RA Ombudsman Armen
    Haroutiunian's 2008 annual report introduced on March 10, RA Prosecutor
    General's Office Press Service made a statement the same day, which
    read:

    "Any statement, estimation, especially voiced by the Ombudsman, should
    be based on the legislation and on concrete facts. However, remaining
    loyal to his working style, the Ombudsman, in partucular, in his
    estimations regarding Prosecutor's Office work and activity always
    refrains from mentioning concrete cases grounding them or permitting
    him to draw such a conclusion, which gives a basis to suppose that the
    Ombudsman is just doing his personal promotion. The provision on
    Prosecutor's Office work mentioned in Ombudsman's report confirms that.

    According to it, 42 application-complaints against RA Prosecutor's
    Office employees' actions were addressed to the RA Ombudsman in the
    period under review, 26 out of which were accepted for examination. The
    Prosecutor's Office itself has repeatedly voiced the shortcomings by
    undertaking concrete steps to liquidate the shortcomings, the
    violations. However, the Prosecutor's Office is far from the thought
    that 42 application-complaints received all over the year gives the
    Ombudsman a basis to present Prosecutor's Office as a repressive
    structure without mentioning any concrete facts and methods. Moreover,
    even when mentioning the application-complaints' content the Ombudsman
    in his annual report did not mention any concrete case of using a
    "repressive" method.

    Not only dereliction of duties, but also abuses are possible in the
    work of Prosecutor's Office officials like officials in any other
    structure. And Prosecutor's Office leadership has repeatedly confirmed
    its resolution to call for liability any prosecutor abusing his
    official powers by undertaking concrete steps.

    Moreover, with the expectation and purpose of mutually beneficial
    partnership the Prosecutor's Office has publicly proposed the Ombudsman
    mentioning the names of prosecutors giving illegal orders, committing
    violations of law, as well as concrete facts to undertake proper
    measures and to pass them for examination by the order established by
    the law. However, Ombudsman's Office so far has not provided any
    concrete fact, name of a prosecutor committing a violation."
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