In one way or another, the realization of the RA citizens' right to freedom of movement is currently associated with a dozen or so laws and legal-normative acts. However, notwithstanding this fact, the legal regulation of the sphere is seriously defective. Perhaps one of the reasons is the fact that in such an important sphere the state has failed to move in the direction of developing an integrated state policy and a subsequent development of a unified and holistic legislation. Certainly this is not an exceptional and unique phenomenon in the world.
But let the world be. As to Armenia, its current passport and migration regulation systems face a number of issues, which put forward the imperatives of innovating these systems and raising their effectiveness in terms of protection of human rights. For instance, does the current passport system allow working out and developing the institute of dual citizenship? Does the so-called "exit" seal in the passport of the RA citizens totally exclude the chances to avoid military service? There is a need to raise the procedural effectiveness of legal and judicial systems, raise the attractiveness of military service and prevent conscious offences to law. Don't we try to loosen this burden through groundless restrictions on citizens' right to freedom of movement?
The list of the questions can grow and eventually come to a range of concrete circumstances among which the most important one is the fact that the RA citizens' right to freedom of movement and restrictions applied to this right are not defined on the level of law. In the result, the following items are still not clearly defined:
There is an opinion that the gaps in current laws and a number of other legal-normative acts can be amended through relevant changes. However, the relative independence of this sphere, the importance of the issue and the fact that there is a need for not only technical, but some fundamental changes, as well, allows one to claim that adopting a separate law is a necessity.
The anticipated fundamental changes are compelled by the imperative of regulating the realization of RA citizens' right to freedom of movement on the level of legislation, which is the highest level of regulation typical to a democratic state where the rule of law prevails. Until today in our country this sphere is regulated by the legal acts inherited from the totalitarian regime of the USSR and the officials follow the work style which has turned into a routine.
First and foremost, it should be free of willfulness and double standards, which implies
This paper has been developed based on the opinions passed by the participants of the discussion organized within the framework of the project "Support to Migration Policy Development and Relevant Capacity Building in Armenia". The event took place on September 25, 2007. The project is financed by the European Union.
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