Member of Parliament Vahe Enfiajyan had a speech at the “The role of the national parliaments in implementing ECHR standards” second regional seminar.
The full speech below:
Dear Colleagues,
Human rights protection and regional capacity building are one of today’s urgent issues. Whatever is stated in the European Convention on Human Rights must be accepted as a law for each country and each of us. Human Rights are international moral norms yet seeking to become legal terms that must be protected anywhere, in any situation or circumstances.
The first section of the European Convention on Human rights clearly states that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person(Article 5 fifth) and no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment(Article 3).
To my big conviction, this section must have a proper explanatory procedure for some of our colleagues to build a more civilized and trustworthy country in the region. For instance, the ongoing human tortures can not be testimonies of a democracy. Even the wars and battles have their own civilization.
The humble thought that if the country joins a treatment or convention then it already adopts the policy stated in that paper is highly doubtful. The proof for it can be the well-known case of Azerbaijani senior Lieutenant Ramil Safarov who 16 times hit the sleeping Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an ax. With a deep sorrow, I assume that it happened in Hungary, during an international program called Partnership for Peace. No matter how was the legal solution the moral one can’t fit a human brain. Yesterday Mr. Boris Chilovich mentioned in his speech that Hungary is the capital of Human rights…Eight(8) years later he was freed and moreover, the President announced him as a national hero for killing an Armenian. The torturer and murderer and killer has a website claiming that killing an Armenian is his job and he does not regret it. We have so many cases from April’s four-day war in 2016 when the Azerbaijani soldiers tortured the Armenians, cut them into pieces, took pictures and spread through the internet.
To my high conviction, this kind of policy can be a very week proof of a civilized country which seeks to human rights protection and regional capacity building. I highly convince and ask each of us to be aware of the ongoing processes not only in parliamentary level, but also state and national policy levels. Any treatment and even any single step must get its objective assessment.International and multinational treatment must be stated concerning the human rights and fundamental freedoms. Only treating in this way we can build a secure environment for a protected citizen of the world. Thank you
Secretary of <<TSARUKYAN>> Faction
Vahe Enfiajyan