Mr. Karen Zadoyan, President of Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association, Coordinator of the CSOs\u2019 Anti-Corruption Coalition Secretariat met with the representatives of \u201cYelk\u201d faction Nikol Pashinyan, Artak Zeynalyan, Gevorg Gorgisyan and Mane Tandilyan.<\/p>\n
The parties discussed the Law on Prevention of Corruption and Corruption Prevention Body and adjacent legal acts.<\/p>\n
The National Assembly is going to hold an extraordinary meeting on June 7, to discuss the mentioned draft and other legal acts, including the new law on the whistleblowers\u2019\u2019 system.<\/p>\n
Karen Zadoyan attached importance to the ant-corruption reforms in the country, including creation of the anti-corruption body, introduced to the attention of the representatives of \u201cYelk\u201d faction the views and concerns of CSOs\u2019 Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia referring to the anti-corruption body. After that the parties began active discussion of the legal acts.<\/p>\n
Mr. Zadoyan informed that the above mentioned legal acts were originally formed on the offer of the Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia. According to him, as a result of the joint work of the civil society organizations and the government in the Anti-Corruption Council lead by the Prime Minister of the RA two models of the independent anti-corruption body were presented: Universal and preventive. However later, the working group formed by the RA President approved the preventive model.<\/p>\n
ALA resident said that the universal model has three functions: preventive, educational and investigative, whereas the preventive model implements only educational and preventive functions.<\/p>\n
During the discussion, the parties agreed to continue joint work.<\/p>\n
Notably, the “Yelk\u201d Alliance of Parties initially supported the universal model, \u201cThe Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials of Armenia\u201d will be dissolved and a universal, independent ant-corruption body will be established,\u201d such provision was included in the election program of the Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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