SOCIAL CARDS WILL PROTECT THE HUMAN RIGHTS
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-Recently a few citizens have applied to the Armenian Ombudsman complaining of the fact they are imposed to obtain social cards. Can people refuse the social cards within their rights?
-What does it mean to defend oneself from a social card? We don’t consider imposing the social cards as infringement of rights since there is a Law obliging everyone. The Law provides that implementation of the right of social insurance must be conditioned by introduction of the system, so it is a clause provided by Law and everyone must obey it. People say their rights are violated at the aspect of religious convictions. The issue was discussed and settled in the newly-approved Law. The Law makes provision that a social card, which is a document is allowed to citizens and the social card or the document has a number. One can say under the same logic he doesn’t want to have a passport since it violates his rights. But we all know a passport is a document, which is given to citizens and applied for implementation of citizens’ rights in cases and order provided by Legislation.
-How do you explain the fact that a citizen can’t separate a social card from the religious context?
-As a Christian and a believer of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a citizen must accept the statement of Armenian Apostolic Church, under which the religious problems were settled in the new Law on social cards. In other words, there isn’t a religious problem any more.
-Is the fact that social cards are imposed on citizens within the human rights?
-The right is not one-sided. If a citizen produces a fact on infringement of his rights, he must realize that the rights of others, too, are protected by Constitution, norms and clauses. A system that must solve problems is introduced.
-Which are those problems?
-We say that one person must not receive a pension from 4 places and one family must not draw pension from 5. Through applying the system of social cards we provide the right of others to receive pensions and grants. If a person receives a pension from many places, naturally, he deprives others of the chance to enjoy pensions. So, we solve the problem by applying the system. Some people say they don’t want to lose the chance to draw grants from a few places. We oppose it because others needy must get it, too. If someone refuses to pay taxes, a mechanism is applied to make him pay and he pays. So, the mechanism for social cards is being introduced to control problems.
