{"id":21088,"date":"2018-09-13T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uic.am\/21088"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:33:45","slug":"daniel-ioannisyans-speech-in-human-dimension-implementation-meeting-2018-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/21088","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ioannisyan&#8217;s speech in Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2018 (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>During the OSCE \/ ODIHR conference in Warsaw on September 10, the coordinator of the &#8220;Union of Informed Citizens&#8221; Daniel Ioannisyan delivered a speech. The speech is given below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone here knows that democracy is in serious crisis all around the world. Some OSCE member-states suffer a significant democratic regress, and even impede development of democracy in other countries as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, Armenia, where I come from, gives hope that this sad process is not irreversible. In April of this year, the people of Armenia managed to prevent an anti-democratic development, as a result of which a team came to power that shares democratic values and displays an real will to fight corruption.<\/p>\n<p>In Armenia, we have a situation when there is an opportunity to put democracy on such institutional bases that will ensure its minimal dependence on the will of the executive authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Within the framework of such reforms, a committee on electoral legislation reforms was established by the Armenian primer minister, half of the members of which are representatives of professional NGO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has already developed the concept of the amendments. In particular, it is envisaged to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the electoral system consistent with the principles of democracy and make the elections more competitive.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure competition between political programs and ideologies, rather than money and administrative resources.<\/li>\n<li>Promote political debates to the extent possible, thereby putting objective facts on the basis of expression of the voters\u2019 will, and reducing the impact of propaganda and fake news.<\/li>\n<li>Make the fight against electoral violations and electoral offenses more efficient, and increase the role of NGOs to achieve that goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of OSCE\/ODHIR and Venice commission commitments will be implemented in the draft of electoral code. By the way, I would like to thank OSCE\/ODHIR election observation missions to Armenia lead by ambassador Tagliavini and ambassador Petersen for their frank reports and important recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that as a result of the amendments it will become impossible for one single party to capture the state in Armenia, and the citizens will restore their trust to election.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank OSCE and a number of member-states for their efforts in the protection of minimal democratic elements in Armenia. Thanks to those efforts, it was possible to have a bloodless revolution.<\/p>\n<p>However, we are now in the next stage when it is necessary to support Armenia in putting democratic mechanisms on institutional bases. In particular, protect those reforms from the influence of well-known forces in the region that disrupt democracy.<\/p>\n<p>And generally speaking, it refer not only to elections but also amendments that will guarantee independence of the judicial power, and establishment of institutional anti-corruption mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we will manage to build democracy in Armenia in such a way that we will be discuss it here only as a success story. But we still have much to do to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel Ioannisyan - HDIM 2018, Working Session 1, 10 September\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3wbWHnK6G7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the OSCE \/ ODIHR conference in Warsaw on September 10, the coordinator of the &#8220;Union of Informed Citizens&#8221; Daniel Ioannisyan delivered a speech. The speech is given below. Everyone here knows that democracy is in serious crisis all around the world. Some OSCE member-states suffer a significant democratic regress, and even impede development of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uic.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}