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CHANGE THE PARLIAMENT TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION, SAYS LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Tert.am
03.10.11
Leader of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (HAK)
Levon Ter-Petrosyan has said that corruption will be eliminated in
the country if the parliament is changed.
Addressing his supporters on Liberty Square, where they have set
up tents and spent there three days now, Ter-Petrosyan also said it
would take some time to tackle corruption in Armenia.
"There is no need to invent a bicycle. There is the law, the
Constitution; corruption disappears when they are observed," said
Ter-Petrosyan.
"If the head of any enterprise does not take bribes, then corruption
is decreased by fifty percent in that enterprise," explained he.
Ter-Petrosyan, who ruled Armenia since its independence in 1991 to
and resigned ahead of the end of his term in 1998, said to fight
corruption it will also be necessary to make changes personnel of
government agencies.
"Time will be needed to fight this corrupted system, but if correct
staff changes are made, corruption will decrease by fifty per cent,"
said he. "The rest requires hard work".
The HAK, headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, recently suspended the dialogue
with representatives of the ruling coalition, pointing to the arrest
of one of its activists.
Further, the HAK leader said that free media is one of the tools
necessary to combat corruption.
"Corruption prospers when there is no free media. Give us a TV channel
and ninety percent of these criminals will in two days be in prisons,"
he continued.
"But it is not only about free media. A state cannot be non-corrupted,
if the legislative power is not independent from the executive one,"
said he.
"Even in the harshest years of the Soviet Union there was no such
judicial system that was this much dependent on the executive power,"
said Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
Tert.am
03.10.11
Leader of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (HAK)
Levon Ter-Petrosyan has said that corruption will be eliminated in
the country if the parliament is changed.
Addressing his supporters on Liberty Square, where they have set
up tents and spent there three days now, Ter-Petrosyan also said it
would take some time to tackle corruption in Armenia.
"There is no need to invent a bicycle. There is the law, the
Constitution; corruption disappears when they are observed," said
Ter-Petrosyan.
"If the head of any enterprise does not take bribes, then corruption
is decreased by fifty percent in that enterprise," explained he.
Ter-Petrosyan, who ruled Armenia since its independence in 1991 to
and resigned ahead of the end of his term in 1998, said to fight
corruption it will also be necessary to make changes personnel of
government agencies.
"Time will be needed to fight this corrupted system, but if correct
staff changes are made, corruption will decrease by fifty per cent,"
said he. "The rest requires hard work".
The HAK, headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, recently suspended the dialogue
with representatives of the ruling coalition, pointing to the arrest
of one of its activists.
Further, the HAK leader said that free media is one of the tools
necessary to combat corruption.
"Corruption prospers when there is no free media. Give us a TV channel
and ninety percent of these criminals will in two days be in prisons,"
he continued.
"But it is not only about free media. A state cannot be non-corrupted,
if the legislative power is not independent from the executive one,"
said he.
"Even in the harshest years of the Soviet Union there was no such
judicial system that was this much dependent on the executive power,"
said Levon Ter-Petrosyan.