The Chairman of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia Ara Zohrabyan appealed to the mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan on 05.02.2019, suggesting to assign the heads of the administrative districts of Yerevan to exclude the cases of hindering the participation of advocates in meetings of the boards of guardianship and trusteeship.

It should be reminded that the motive of addressing the Mayor became advocate Nelli Movsisyan’s application submitted to the Chamber of Advocates of RA on 04.02.2019, by which the advocate informed that the board of guardianship and trusteeship of the Arabkir Administrative District of Yerevan hindered the implementation of her professional activities, by forbidding to participate in the session of the board as her trustee’s representative.

On 12.02.2019, the Chamber of Advocates of RA received the note of Yerevan Municipality according to which Yerevan Municipality reaffirmed its commission of ensuring the participation of advocates, particularly in the sessions of the boards of guardianship and trusteeship.  

It was also mentioned in the note, that the Municipality, in particular, the staff of the heads’ of administrative districts are ready to continue the cooperation with the Chamber of Advocates for the sake of protecting the rights of each person.

The note also referred to the incident with advocate Nelli Movsisyan, about which the latter was notified.