“Who can participate in the session of the Anti-Corruption Council?” asked Ms Tamara Abrahamyan, the coordinator of the Public Network for Cooperation with State Authorities. She reminded that the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition had refrained to participate in the tender for participation in the Anti-Corruption Council.
Ms Abrahamyan was surprised with the observation that the first session of the council will take place tomorrow and that two NGOs will attend that session and their representatives will make reports.
The latter are Mrs. Shushan Doydoyan, President of the Freedom of Information center NGO and Boris Navasardyan, the Director of Yerevan Press Club.
To our question whether this has a imitative nature, which means that the government tries in this way to show that the civil society is involved in the structure of the council, our interlocutor said, “It is very surprising that these NGOs can now create a situation of imitation. For example, in the course of his entire activities Boris Navasardyan always intended to condemn the government’s imitative activities. Whereas now he is going to imitate. I cannot imagine how he could go with it. Apparently there have been some developments, which I am not aware at this point and I would not allow myself to judge abruptly,” Ms Abrahamyan said.
