THOUSANDS OF ARMENIAN CITIZENS REFUSED FROM SOCIAL CARDS

“Based on religious and legal reasons thousands of Armenian citizens refused from social cards. Many of those, who were forced to get the cards or were deceived to get them, today convey them to the Armenian Center for Protection of Constitutional Rights and ask us to return them to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as respective services refuse to receive them,” the Center President Gevorg Manukain noted at a press conference in the House of Journalists. The requests of 130 citizens are complied.
In Gevorg Manukian’s words a note was received from the Ministry, which reported that the personal records of the citizens, who refused from social cards, are blocked. Virtually from January 1, 2005 hundreds of people can be deprived of minimal means of existence – the opportunity to get salary and pension.
The Armenian Center for Protection of Constitutional Rights and other human rights organizations state that further steps on the way of fulfillment of the Law on Social Cards are fraught with serious consequences.