{"id":256453,"date":"2014-07-25T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=256453"},"modified":"2014-07-25T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:46:38","slug":"armenian-defense-ministry-claims-information-requested-by-ngo-is-state-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/25\/armenian-defense-ministry-claims-information-requested-by-ngo-is-state-secret.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Defense Ministry Claims Information Requested by NGO is &#8220;State Secret&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Court of Appeal of the Republic of Armenia (RA) on July 24 began examination of the appeal of the RA Ministry of Defense, which is disputing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/10\/human-rights-organization-wins-lawsuit-against-armenias-defense-ministry.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>RA Administrative Court ruling<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, the Administrative Court on April 9 upheld the claim of Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office against the RA Ministry of Defense and ordered the defense ministry to provide the information requested by the organization &mdash; that is, the names of organizations supplying food, clothing, fuel, and stationery supplies and the types of food, clothing, fuel, and stationery supplies they have supplied.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcav.am\/events\/25-07-2014-3\/#\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>organization&#39;s website<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM], reading the appeal, the Ministry of Defense representative, Manik Santrosyan, said that the information requested by the Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office contains state and official secrets; thus, he cannot provide it and the court did not take this fact into account when issuing its ruling.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office, however, said that those purchases that are not made to ensure military equipment, arms, ammunition, or military equipment cannot be considered state secrets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mil.am\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">RA Ministry of Defense<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defense representative Manik Santrosyan said that the information requested by the Helsinki Citizens&#8217; Assembly Vanadzor Office contains&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15583,54712,22355,18698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}