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Suren Krmoyan: "Children are our future, and the most important thing is everyone's contribution in this direction"
Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Arman Tatoyan, Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Armenia Tanja Radocaj, experts of a number of non-governmental organisations dealing with issues of the rights and protection of children participated in the presentation-discussion of the report.
Meeting of Inter-agency Committee to sum up Council of Europe Action Plan for Armenia 2015-2018 was held
In his speech, Vigen Kocharyan extended his gratitude to the partners of the Council of Europe for the close co-operation, emphasising that the Council of Europe Office in Armenia had been a core partner for all the reforms carried out by the Ministry of Justice during recent years.
Minister of Justice receives delegation led by Representative of the European Commission Vassilis Maragos
Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia, Ambassador Piotr Świtalski; Deputy Ministers of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Vigen Kocharyan and Suren Krmoyan; Head of Cooperation Section of the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia Hoa-Binh Adjemian and others participated in the meeting.
Subsequent session of the Council for Juvenile Justice was held
The sessions of the Council shall be held at least once every 3 months in the mandatory presence of one third of the members, and the agenda of the Council shall be formed based on the recommendations submitted by members, which shall be adopted by open voting and with an opportunity to submit a special opinion; document circulation shall be carried out electronically.
Minister Zeynalyan receives Ambassador of the Netherlands Daumann
In the conversation with the Ambassador, the Minister presented the priorities of the justice sector — legal and judicial reforms, capacity-building of the Probation Service, activities aimed at improving penitentiary institutions, particularly, ensuring occupation of persons held in confinement and improvement of the food quality provided to them.
Minister of Justice participates in event entitled "Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Armenia"
Minister Zeynalyan expressed his gratitude for the invitation and noted that the tasks set forth under this project, which is being launched with this event, are very important. According to Artak Zeynalyan, as a Deputy of the National Assembly and advocate for human rights protection, he has been closely following the discussions on the relevant law and even though he had voted in favour of the draft law, he noted that the law adopted in that phase has some problems and considered adoption of the law as an intermediate solution.
Sixth meeting of Co-ordinating Council of the Project "Strengthening Healthcare and Human Rights Protection in Prisons in Armenia" was held
Greeting the participants, Deputy Minister Krmoyan attached importance to meetings in such format in terms of summing up the completed activities and outlining the future actions.
Consultation on General Data Protection Regulation
Taking into account the above-mentioned and based on its competence of providing consultations prescribed by point 15 of part 3 of Article 24 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On protection of personal data”, the Personal Data Protection Agency of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia presents below the cases in which the Regulation is applicable to the processors of personal data (processors of personal data of the Republic of Armenia) in countries not deemed to be EU member states; for example, if Armenian processors or the person authorised thereby have subsidiaries – daughter companies, branch etc.).
Minister of Justice receives representatives of GIZ Armenian office
Greeting the guests, the Minister of Justice highly appreciated the activities of the Office in Armenia and underlined that numerous legal acts have been developed and brought to life with the participation of the GIZ's professional staff, i.e. legislation on administrative law, which is, according to Artak Zeynalyan, one of the best legislations in the Republic of Armenia.
Minister of Justice discusses wide range of co-operation with U.S. Ambassador
Ambassador Mills congratulated Artak Zeynalyan on the occasion of his appointment and underlined that the United States was ready to provide assistance in the issues concerning rule of law, human rights and anti-corruption, improving the business climate in Armenia and making the country more attractive for American investors. "We congratulate you on your appointment and expect fruitful co-operation," the U.S. Ambassador said and asked about the priorities of the Ministry of Justice.
Suren Krmoyan attaches importance to need to provide objective coverage in closed institutions and apply "principle of not damaging"
On behalf of Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan, Suren Krmoyan greeted the participants of the training course and noted that the Minister highly appreciates the opportunities of open and transparent communication, particularly through media.
Minister of Justice receives Ambassador of Argentina to Armenia
Greeting the Ambassador, the Minister highly appreciated the existing relations between the two countries and noted that there was great potential for deepening the co-operation in the justice sector.
