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Reforms in State Register Agency of Legal Entities field
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia also attaches importance to the awareness of the citizens of the services provided by the State Register Agency of Legal Entities, as by being informed of the sector concerned the person is aware of his or her rights and can protect them.
Davit Harutyunyan discusses probation system reforms with Georgian colleague
Greeting the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, Minister of Corrections of Georgia, Kakha Kakhishvili, underlined that two countries have one aim, i.e., to achieve the solution of problems within a short period of time.
Justice Minister discusses furthering co-operation in legal sector with Georgian counterpart
Deputy Ministers of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, Arthur Hovhannisyan and Suren Krmoyan, also participated in the meeting.
Georgian-Armenian second legal forum launched
Minister Harutyunyan extended thanks to his partners for organising Georgian-Armenian second legal forum in Tbilisi and noted that such discussions contribute to further mutually beneficial co-operation and to deepening the partnership in legal sector.
Armenia’s joining Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children discussed
Suren Krmoyan greeted the participants of the meeting and they discussed the joining of Armenia “The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children” (EVAC), as well as the reasonability of considering the Juvenile Justice Board as a necessary platform for joining the mentioned organisation. The Deputy Minister noted that the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia attaches utmost importance to such an opportunity of international co-operation, which will contribute to reduction and prevention of the cases of violence against children in our country, as well as to the introduction of proven and efficient mechanisms and instruments ensuring child protection.
Davit Harutyunyan: Application of electronic technologies in governance process will have positive impact on all fields of our lives
Minister Davit Harutyunyan extended thanks to the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia and all the partners for continuous support to implementation of key reforms in the state administration system of the Republic of Armenia. "Digitalisation of the state administration system, application of electronic technologies in the process of governance will have positive impact on all the fields of our lives — the state administration system, infrastructures, economy, public life, education, security and the integration processes with the participation of Armenia", the Minister noted adding that modernisation of the state system of Armenia is one of the priorities of the Government.
Public discussion on whistleblowing system introduction held at Justice Ministry
Draft sub-legislative acts, particularly draft decisions of the Government of the Republic of Armenia "On approving the technical description of the unified electronic platform for whistleblowing and the procedure for its operation" and "On approving the standard form of registration and formulation of the reports, as well as on establishing the procedure for implementation of remedies provided to the whistleblower in case of internal and external whistleblowing" were discussed during the working meeting.
12th session of CIS Council of Justice Ministers held in Yerevan
Minister Harutyunyan, greeting the representatives of the Member States, underlined that the Council of Ministries of Justice is actually one of the important CIS members acting efficiently, within the framework of which a number of issues under the jurisdiction of the Ministries of Justice of Member States are discussed and coordinated.
Session of CIS member states’ workgroup tasked with developing recommendations on improvement of legal assistance implementation mechanisms held
Head of the working group, Vigen Kocharyan, greeted the members of the participant States presenting the agenda of issues to be discussed and wished efficient working discussions.
Opening speech of Justice Minister at public discussion of draft Law on Preventing Domestic Violence
On 9 October a public discussion on the topic of “Combating domestic violence: work done and steps to be taken” took place in Yerevan. The opening speech of Minister of Justice Davit Harutyunyan is presented in full:
Justice Minister receives Harlem Désir, OSCE Media Freedom Representative
During the meeting Minister Harutyunyan and OSCE Representative Désir discussed the state of freedom of speech in Armenia and touched upon more guarantees defined by the amendments to Constitution in 2015 for the right of freedom of expression and the right to information.
Deputy Justice Minister participates in Eastern Partnership Platform on Rule of Law meeting
During the meeting the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia came with a speech by presenting the steps undertaken towards raising the efficiency of justice and the reforms of the justice sector to be implemented in the future. V. Kocharyan touched upon legal regulations enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and the new draft Judicial Code of the Republic of Armenia indicating the role of the Supreme Judicial Council as an independent body guaranteeing the independence of courts and judges. Deputy Minister informed the participants of the meeting that the new 2018-2023 Action Plan for Legal and Judicial Reforms is currently under development, which is planned to be adopted early in 2018.
