The release of majority of political prisoners as a result of declared amnesty was the most significant achievement of 2009 from democracy and human rights protection viewpoint. The oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) office coordinator Levon Zurabyan told NEWS.am.

“There were numerous failures. The most significant loss for Armenian people was that it again suffered existence of illegal oligarchic system resulted in Zurich disgrace (October 10, 2009Armenia-Turkey Protocols were signed in Zurich) when Armenian authorities first assumed that Karabakh issue should be settled in frames of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” oppositionist said.