YEREVAN. – No money is required as compensation in Armenian First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s petition submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and with respect to Armenia’s presidential elections held on February 19, 2008, the First President’s representative at the European Court (EC), attorney Vahe Grigoryan told Haykakan Zhamanak daily.     

“According to the lawyer, he informed the First President that in such cases the European Court usually consents to the requirements of compensating for moral and material damage, but the First President’s sole requirement was for the recognition of the fact that Armenia has violated the rights specified by the [European] Convention on Human Rights, which Armenia had assumed.      

‘Recognition of the violation of Convention rights is a fair and adequate compensation for the First President,’ the attorney said.  

This petition was submitted to EC in August 2008. Examination of the petition commenced in May of this year. [And] The ruling on this case could be made public before [Armenia’s] presidential elections to be held in February [2013],” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.