YEREVAN. – Candidates for the new Human Rights Defender of Armenia shall be submitted to the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs within five days.

NA President Galust Sahakyan stated the aforesaid at Wednesday’s parliament session.

In his words, the NA on Tuesday approved the procedure for the nomination of these candidates, and according to which, members of the abovementioned committee shall submit their new Ombudsman candidates to the committee by no later than February 9.

Pursuant to the recently-passed constitutional amendments, the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs shall submit the candidacy of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia.