YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Disguising themselves with "state needs," a group of high-ranking state officials made redistribution of property characteristic of Stalin era. Sedrak Baghdasarian, the Chairman of the Victims of State Needs NGO, said at the November 5 discussion under the title "Ownership Right and Protection of Owners' Interests." According to him, the RA government making a number of decisions in 2001-2005, including the decision "On Measures of Implementation of Construction Programs in the Administrative Boundaries of Yerevan's Kentron community," robbed more than 1000 inhabitants of that community. While, as S. Baghdasarian said, according to the Constitution, "the RA government cannot establish such a procedure of real estate alienation for public and state needs, which will authorize it with the right of real estate alienation." S. Baghdasarian said that the organization will struggle resolutely to restore the violated rights of citizens, who have been deprived of the ownership right. According to him, 10 lawsuits have been introduced to Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights by owners.

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