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UNDER PROSECUTOR'S CROSS
Hakob Badalyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27888
Comments - Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 13:22
It is a surprise why Serzh Sargsyan's meeting with legal officials
was held in the office of the prosecutor general and not under the
33-meter cross erected on the slope of Mount Aragast thanks to the
efforts of Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan. In general, it is a
surprise why the idea to hold that meeting came to Serzh Sargsyan and
not the Catholicos. In general, the Prosecutor General's office should
be incorporated in the Armenian Apostolic Church for the Catholicos
to remove prosecutors for inappropriate behavior.
If Serzh Sargsyan is concerned about the quality and efficiency of the
work of the prosecutor's office, and if he is determined and willing
to tackle with the problem, he had better deal with prosecution rather
than hold meetings.
Modernization of the system of public administration in Armenia should
be view from this point of view. In other words, modernization is
the radical revision of the existing system.
The evolutionary method of improvement is not effective. Armenia
doesn't have so much time to elaborate its policy papers. Practical
and productive steps are necessary which can be achieved only through
radical change.
The meetings held regularly by Serzh Sargsyan can solve only political
issue, influence the scramble for power. The productiveness of these
meetings is zero. For example, several weeks ago Serzh Sargsyan held
a meeting in the prime minister's office during which he gave special
assignments to Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan and Gorik Hakobyan,
head of the RA National Security Service.
Several weeks have already passed but the only big thing the
prosecutor's office has done is the cross erected in Aparan.
It means that Aghvan Hovsepyan has ignored Serzh Sargsyan's request
which for its part means that either the request was formal, and the
prosecutor knows about it, or Aghvan Hovsepyan himself decided what,
when and how.
The reality is most probably between these two possibilities. The
formality of the presidential elections is not a secret but it is
not a surprise either that Serzh Sargsyan is unable to influence some
top officials.
The issue is not Serzh Sargsyan but the nature of the system. This
system in terms of content is not a pyramid where the monarch makes
the decisions and applies them at lowers levels of the pyramid. There
is a clear set of rights and obligations in the system, and if this
obligation is fulfilled conscientiously, the rights are also respected,
independently from one's status and diameter.
Meetings in such systems and in any other system have a cosmetic
nature unless the set of rights and obligations is reviewed. In the
current system the key aspect is the "cross" not the constitutional
function. Aghvan Hovsepyan is an experienced legal official. He would
never make such a mistake as to ignore his duties and attend the
"crosses" getting deprived of the rights. He knows that his obligation
is the "crosses" which help him own the right.
The mechanism cannot be reviewed through the evolutionary method until
it stands firm despite the wish of the members involved. This mechanism
if based on instincts and is the guarantee of securing from conscious
"deviations".
Consequently, the issue is to get rid of this set which is
possible only through fast and large-scale revolutionary changes
and establishment of a completely new system. This is not only about
the judicial but also economic and political systems. The issue of
governance in Armenia will not be solved by individuals but by systems,
and power will belong to those who will be able to create new systems.
From: Baghdasarian
Hakob Badalyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27888
Comments - Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 13:22
It is a surprise why Serzh Sargsyan's meeting with legal officials
was held in the office of the prosecutor general and not under the
33-meter cross erected on the slope of Mount Aragast thanks to the
efforts of Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan. In general, it is a
surprise why the idea to hold that meeting came to Serzh Sargsyan and
not the Catholicos. In general, the Prosecutor General's office should
be incorporated in the Armenian Apostolic Church for the Catholicos
to remove prosecutors for inappropriate behavior.
If Serzh Sargsyan is concerned about the quality and efficiency of the
work of the prosecutor's office, and if he is determined and willing
to tackle with the problem, he had better deal with prosecution rather
than hold meetings.
Modernization of the system of public administration in Armenia should
be view from this point of view. In other words, modernization is
the radical revision of the existing system.
The evolutionary method of improvement is not effective. Armenia
doesn't have so much time to elaborate its policy papers. Practical
and productive steps are necessary which can be achieved only through
radical change.
The meetings held regularly by Serzh Sargsyan can solve only political
issue, influence the scramble for power. The productiveness of these
meetings is zero. For example, several weeks ago Serzh Sargsyan held
a meeting in the prime minister's office during which he gave special
assignments to Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan and Gorik Hakobyan,
head of the RA National Security Service.
Several weeks have already passed but the only big thing the
prosecutor's office has done is the cross erected in Aparan.
It means that Aghvan Hovsepyan has ignored Serzh Sargsyan's request
which for its part means that either the request was formal, and the
prosecutor knows about it, or Aghvan Hovsepyan himself decided what,
when and how.
The reality is most probably between these two possibilities. The
formality of the presidential elections is not a secret but it is
not a surprise either that Serzh Sargsyan is unable to influence some
top officials.
The issue is not Serzh Sargsyan but the nature of the system. This
system in terms of content is not a pyramid where the monarch makes
the decisions and applies them at lowers levels of the pyramid. There
is a clear set of rights and obligations in the system, and if this
obligation is fulfilled conscientiously, the rights are also respected,
independently from one's status and diameter.
Meetings in such systems and in any other system have a cosmetic
nature unless the set of rights and obligations is reviewed. In the
current system the key aspect is the "cross" not the constitutional
function. Aghvan Hovsepyan is an experienced legal official. He would
never make such a mistake as to ignore his duties and attend the
"crosses" getting deprived of the rights. He knows that his obligation
is the "crosses" which help him own the right.
The mechanism cannot be reviewed through the evolutionary method until
it stands firm despite the wish of the members involved. This mechanism
if based on instincts and is the guarantee of securing from conscious
"deviations".
Consequently, the issue is to get rid of this set which is
possible only through fast and large-scale revolutionary changes
and establishment of a completely new system. This is not only about
the judicial but also economic and political systems. The issue of
governance in Armenia will not be solved by individuals but by systems,
and power will belong to those who will be able to create new systems.
From: Baghdasarian