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Working discussion regarding keeping judicial statistics took place
About a dozen representatives from public and private organisations were present at the meeting held under the chairmanship of Deputy Director of the "Centre for Legislation Development and Legal Research" Foundation Arsen Hovhannisyan. The purpose of the meeting was to compile the issues that are encountered in practice while keeping judicial statistics and receive recommendations for making the process of developing a draft Government decision — envisaging a new procedure for keeping judicial statistics — more participatory.
Minister of Justice receives Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia
Minister Zeynalyan highly appreciated the co-operation between the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia and noted that the Government of the Republic of Armenia was determined to develop relations with Iran.
Minister of Justice introduces newly appointed head to the staff of the Penitentiary Service
First Deputy Minister of Justice Artur Hovhannisyan, Deputy Minister Suren Krmoyan and Head of the Control Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Mikayel Minasyan participated in the meeting.
What the Minister of Justice requires and exhorts from the Compulsory Enforcement Service is excellent performance of tasks
First Deputy Minister of Justice Artur Hovhannisyan and Head of the Control Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Mikayel Minasyan participated in the meeting as well.
Minister of Justice receives Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Armenia
The Minister highly appreciated the current co-operation between the Ministry of Justice and UNICEF Armenia and noted that the new Government was ready to bring all programmes for children’s protection to life.
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.
