National Assembly receives second resignation request of Human Rights Defender of Armenia Karen Andreasyan

YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. National Assembly received second resignation request of Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Karen Andreasyan. “Armenpress” reports Head ofPublic Relationsand MediaDepartmentof the National Assembly of ArmeniaArsen Babayan made a note about this on his Facebook page.

“I want to remind that the President of the National Assembly informs the MPs during the upcoming session about the early termination of the Defender’s responsibilities in accordance with the 3rd part of the 6th article of the “law on Human Rights Defender”, he informed.

Human rights defender of the Republic of Armenia Karen Andreasyan submitted a resignation request on January 12. “The Ombudsman thanks all his partners for the joint work and hopes that the human rights protection will remain our country’s and society’s priority. There will be no other comments on this occasion’’, the Facebook post of the Ombudsman red.

The responsibilities of the Human Rights Defender are terminated if he repeats his resignation not later than 10 days after submitting a resignation request (this means he must submit a request twice).

In case the resignation request is repeated, the President of the National Assembly (NA) informs the deputies about the termination of the responsibilities of the Defender during the coming session.

In case of early termination of Defender’s powers the elections are passed within a month after the post remains vacant.