Does the National Commission on TV and Radio (NCTR) accept the criticism of the Human Rights Defender that the commission hasn’t offered antimonopoly guarantees provided for by the law by omission, hasn’t performed supervising functions to prevent monopolization of the broadcasting market?
“It is an incomprehensible accusation. I think that professional ethics requires any official document to have factual grounds – what and how… What do they mean by saying antimonopoly? It is hard to respond to abstract statements,” Grigor Amalyan, the head of the NCTR, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am.
He doesn’t agree with the assessments of the Human Rights Defender that the commission has neglected its duty or has worked insufficiently. In Mr. Amalyan’s opinion, many issues raised by the Ombudsman have not been within their competence, “There are problems that are not regulated by us at all. I think that the Ombudsman’s staff will be more careful in the next
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reports so as to assess the activities of the commission within the limits of its competence, while assessing the work of the commission. According to such logic, they could have assessed the work of the commission in terms of good or bad TV broadcasting in neighboring countries.”
We inquired from Mr. Amalyan why they spoke of commission’s being inactive all the time, whether there was lack of trust in the commission, “In Armenia, there are many idle people who are engaged in blaming others for idleness.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
