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Minister reports to President on reforms being carried out in the field

12/09/2017
In the process of development of legal acts deriving from the constitutional reforms, the President of the Republic mostly emphasised the importance of ensuring their quality, underlining, at the same time, that the relevant drafts should be submitted to the Government or the National Assembly ahead of the set deadline so that it becomes possible to properly organise their final adoption.

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Minister of Justice receives delegation led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Armenia

11/09/2017
Davit Harutyunyan expressed his gratitude to the Ambassador for her effective co-operation and introduced the activities that are being carried out in the legislative field after the constitutional reforms. In this context, the Minister set aside the changes expected under the draft Judicial Code and pointed out that the emphasis will be placed upon the guarantees ensuring internal and external independence of the judicial system.

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Procedure for lump-sum childbirth benefit simplified

08/09/2017
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Davit Harutyunyan, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia Bradley Busetto, EU representative Gregory Tsouris, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Suren Krmoyan, Head of the State Social Security Service Hovhannes Sahakyan and others participated in the event.

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Minister of Justice receives Ambassador of Bulgaria to the Republic of Armenia

05/09/2017
Greeting the Ambassador, the Minister highly appreciated the current level of co-operation between the two countries and discussed with his counterpart the possibilities of mutual co-operation in the legal sphere.

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Possibilities for joining the International Co-operation Platform on Prevention of Violence against Children discussed

04/09/2017
Minister Davit Harutyunyan attached importance to the mission undertaken by the organisations especially in the area of children's rights protection and to the programmes being implemented to this end.

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Training course for those responsible for implementing anti-corruption programme within republican executive bodies launched

04/09/2017
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Suren Krmoyan attached importance to the conduct of a training course on the fight against corruption within executive bodies and added that the representatives of the agency must be persistent in implementation of the programme.

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Deputy Minister of Justice receives delegation of the House of Representatives of Indonesia

01/09/2017
Welcoming the guests to the Ministry of Justice, Deputy Minister Vigen Kocharyan attached importance to the constructive relations between the two countries and expressed hope that such contacts will also contribute to further development of co-operation in the legal sphere.

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Davit Harutyunyan and Judith Margaret Farnworth sign Memorandum of Understanding

31/07/2017
The implementation of the programme will foster effective implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy of the Government of the Republic of Armenia and enable to introduce sub-legislative regulations stemming from the Law "On the protection of whistle-blowers", as well as to raise the level of awareness of the civil society and the public in the field of protection of whistle-blowers.

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Davit Harutyunyan receives U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia Richard Mills

25/07/2017
The Minister presented to the Ambassador the process of introducing a range of electronic management tools in a number of areas of the Ministry of Justice and, in particular, the activities being carried out for digitisation of court archive materials and the introduction of the e-apostille and e-notariat systems.

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Ministers of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and the Czech Republic discuss issues of mutual interest

24/07/2017
Minister of Justice Davit Harutyunyan also visited the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic, got acquainted with the Czech practice in the sphere and then presented the activities targeted at the development of the State Probation Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.

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"Protection of minors during criminal proceedings" distance learning course launched

19/07/2017
It was developed and introduced by the Justice Academy of the Republic of Armenia in co-operation with and with the support of the UNICEF. Deputy Minister of Justice Suren Krmoyan, Rector of the Justice Academy Sergey Arakelyan, judges, prosecutors, representatives of non-governmental organisations and others were also present at the presentation of the course.

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Minister of Justice participates in session of multi-stakeholder group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative of the Republic of Armenia

18/07/2017
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic of Armenia Judith Margaret Farnworth, as well as representatives of stakeholder state bodies and organisations also took part in the meeting.

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