Today Human Rights Defender Arman
Tatoyan received the representatives of the "Gituzh" initiative.
Tigran Shahverdyan, co-founder of the
Robomart organization, Gevorg Safaryan, founder of Earlyone and Limetech
organizations and Gevorg Poghosyan, co-founder of The Crowdfunding Formula
expressed their concerns about the project which provides the abolition of the
guarantee on the minimum threshold of financial allocations of science from the
State budget. This, in turn, may lead to a reduction of funds for financing
scientific and technical activities allocated from the State budget.
In particular, it refers to the package
of drafts that were accepted without discussion at the March 11 sitting of the
Government and submitted to the National Assembly.
In their opinion, scientific activity
requires a long-term state commitment.
Therefore, in order to ensure a real
result, it is not necessary to eliminate the existing guarantees by law, but to
fix the increase of the allocated means in the law.
The representatives of the
"Science" initiative noted that the reduction of the State budget
allocations for scientific and scientific-technical activities or elimination
of legislative requirements protecting against fund reduction will affect the freedom
of literary, artistic, scientific, and technical work guaranteed for each
person by the Constitution.
Mr. Arman Tatoyan noted at the meeting
that the freedom of creative expression and the right to education are
important constitutional rights.
The Defender noted that the design
solutions, including the relevance of science, should be the subject of
detailed discussion with the participation of representatives of different
spheres and any mechanical approach, without taking into account the content
issues should be excluded.
The Human Rights Defender expressed
willingness to assist in
resolving the raised issues within his competence.
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