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The Human Rights Defender Office continues receiving complaints regarding the RA law on state pensions. ‘Pastinfo.am’ was informed about it by HRD Head of legal analysis department Aram Vardanyan.

Let us remind that HRD Karen Andreasyan applied to the CC contesting several provisions of the law, according to which the RA citizens living abroad are obliged to present a certificate that they are alive once a year, which can only be certified by a notary officer functioning in the RA or come to a bank and make a statement about being alive. Only in that case the citizen can receive pension.

Whereas the RA joined the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents on May 24, 1993. 103 countries have signed the convention.

With the membership to this convention the RA is obliged to mutually release from legalization of the official as well as notary documents provided by another state and presented in Armenia.

‘Armenia must accept the document received from the convention member country without the demand of double validation. The CC confirmed that the citizen can get credentials also by applying to the relevant notary office in the country of his residence’ noted the HRD representative during the conversation with the reporter of ‘Pastinfo.am’. However, despite the CC decision the HRD Office continues receiving complaints from the citizens regarding the same issue. In other words, the approach, which according to the CC was not compatible with the RA Constitution, in practice is note excluded.

‘If the CC commentaries are not preserved by the relevant interested bodies, then it can be considered an action generating a responsibility’ noted A. Vardanyan. According to him this issue is now being discussed.

In near future the CC will examine another case connected with the provision of the RA law on state pensions, where, by the words of the HRD representative, it is possible that the fact that despite the CC decision in practice nothing changed will be addressed.

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