Ashot Melkonyan, the Health Care Expert at the “Center for Regional Development and Research” NGO, finds that it is necessary to introduce systemic changes in order to eliminate the problems in the health system. On 28 September, 2016, the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, in cooperation with the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia and the Freedom of… Read more »
CSOs and Mass Media Must Play an Important Role in terms of Ensuring Transparency of the Income and Asset Declaration Institution
High-ranking officials’ asset and income declaration is a an extremely important process that must be transparent. President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, Coordinator of the Secretariat of the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia Karen Zadoyan says that both mass media and representatives of civil society are talking about the transparency of high-ranking officials’ income and asset declaration institution. In his words, the system still needs improvement. “It cannot work effectively if civil society organizations and mass media don’t play a role to ensure the very transparency of the system and, so to speak, keep a public eye on it by undertaking public oversight,” said Mr. Zadoyan.