Representatives of the Secretariat of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and assessment experts from Serbia have arrived in Armenia within the scope of the Second Cycle of Review of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

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Today, Deputy Minister of Justice Kristinne Grigoryan received Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to Armenia, his Highness José Avelino Bettencourt. The representative of His Holiness, the High Priest of Rome expressed gratitude to the Deputy Minister for the reception, noted that he is in Armenia in a stage that is historic for the country and expressed the support of the Holy See to the reforms that the country is implementing for human rights protection. The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See expressed willingness to deepen the co-operation in several directions.

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Today, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan visited “Expertise Centre” SNCO of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia where 15 types and 46 subtypes of expert examinations are performed. Accompanied by First Deputy Minister Artak Asatryan and Director of the Centre Artashes Suchyan, Minister Badasyan toured the Centre and got acquainted with the employees, the activities of the institution, the conditions for performing expert-examination

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Today, the main results of study in the field of bankruptcy and the roadmap developed based on those results (http://moj.am/storage/uploads/0AM02.pdf ) were presented with the participation of First Deputy Minister of Justice Artak Asatryan.

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The Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Ministry of Justice remain faithful to the declared goal of implementing profound reforms aimed at restoring the trust in judicial power and the recovery of judicial system, and to the position of achieving that goal through clarification and expansion of the grounds for instituting disciplinary proceedings against a judge, as well as elaboration of an impartial mechanism for the assessment of the integrity and property status of judges.

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Today, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Armenia Sergey Kopirkin. Rustam Badasyan welcomed the Ambassador in the Ministry of Justice and expressed willingness to deepen the co-operation.

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Today, a working discussion on reforming the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On freedom of information" took place with the participation of Deputy Minister of Justice Anna Vardapetyan. The discussion was organised through the joint efforts of the Ministry of Justice and Freedom of Information Centre NGO.

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Today, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Rustam Badasyan introduced newly appointed head of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Artur Goyunyan to the staff of the Service.

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Deputy Minister of Justice Tigran Khachikyan discussed the draft Decision of the Government "On Approving the Anti-Corruption Strategy of the Republic of Armenia and its Implementation Action Plan for 2019-2022" with civil society representatives in the city of Gyumri. The discussion was organised by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian Lawyers' Association NGO.

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The Ministry of Justice has launched a series of discussions on two major documents with civil society representatives. On 10 July, Minister Rustam Badasyan received representatives of a number of non-governmental organisations and discussed conceptual approaches to and regulations of the draft Anti-Corruption Strategy and the Strategy for Judicial and Legal Reforms. The Minister expressed gratitude to the partnering organisations for accepting the invitation and attaching importance to the conduct of such meetings and assured that these meetings will be ongoing.

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