The level of trust in the Ombudsman has significantly increased in Armenia in recent years, especially after the velvet revolution, as evidenced by the increase in the number of citizens' appeals to him, Armenian parliament’s speaker Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday at a conference dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Human Rights Defender of Armenia.

According to him, this office can become an important institution for the protection and restoration of the rights of citizens who have been violated for many years. 

As he noted, there are no and cannot be any political obstacles to this institution in the performance of its functions.

Armenian parliament was and will continue to be the guarantor of this institution, he added.