{"id":2995,"date":"2018-07-20T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:02:25","slug":"paola-severino-met-with-representatives-of-the-armenian-lawyers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/2995.html","title":{"rendered":"Paola Severino Met with Representatives of the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"r\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On July 19 2018, the mission headed by Paola Severino, the current OSCE Head&#8217;s Special Representative on Combating Corruption and Italy&#8217;s former Minister of Justice, had a meeting with President of the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association (ALA) Karen Zadoyan and some representatives from the association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Karen Zadoyan presented to the mission a number of anti-corruption reforms that were initiated by the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association and the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia and later implemented by the government in Armenia during the past two years, including: criminalization of illicit enrichment, adoption of laws on whistleblowers&#8217; system and the independent anti-corruption agency, introduction of the institution of beneficial owners in public procurement, etc. In institutionalizing fight against corruption, the President of the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association emphasized the establishment of a universal independent anti-corruption agency in Armenia, one that would be provided with educational, preventive, and pre-investigation, including investigative and intelligence functions. Karen Zadoyan also noted that two criminal cases had just been initiated based on the corpus delicti of illicit enrichment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ms. Severino attached great importance to the combating corruption and ALA&#8217;s consistent actions in this field. Having in mind Italy&#8217;s experience in this field, Ms. Severino found the establishment of a universal independent anti-corruption agency in Armenia particularly important among the above-mentioned reforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19 2018, the mission headed by Paola Severino, the current OSCE Head&#8217;s Special Representative on Combating Corruption and Italy&#8217;s former Minister of Justice, had a meeting with President of the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association (ALA) Karen Zadoyan and some representatives from the association. Karen Zadoyan presented to the mission a number of anti-corruption reforms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}