Speaking about the circumstance, that in the agenda of the first session of the Anti-Corruption Council are included reports referring to the situation of the sphere of Information freedom and to questions concerning the creation of Public Councils adjacent the Ministers, which are presented by the non-member NGOs, Mr. Hoktanyan pointed that they are not primary important: “We did not want to join the council, because this institutional solution is likely to bring forth the imitation of anti-corruption struggle, rather than really serious struggle. This is not that very structural solution. We did not want to join from the very beginning, we want have a status of an observer, as we cannot be a participant of a possible imitation. Although we said that if there were serious approaches at time, maybe we would have undertaken other steps.
Besides, Mr. Hoktanyan is worried about the fact that the main reporters of the Council session are non-member NGOs of the Council: “If there was such a consensus, somehow spontaneous, if they are reporters, it is no longer an observer.”
He Head of “Transparency International” anti-corruption center Varuzhan Hoktanyan agreed with the idea that during the first session the Council prefers to discuss questions of secondary nature instead of discussing the questions why Transparency International anti-corruption, Anti-Corruption coalition of Civil Society and many other NGOs refused to take part in the activities of the body, and why not a single organization applied for the competition.

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