Armenian corruption control council discusses number of issues

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 22 2005

ARMENIAN CORRUPTION CONTROL COUNCIL DISCUSSES NUMBER OF ISSUES

YEREVAN, July 22. /ARKA/. The members of the Armenian Corruption
Control Council discussed a number of issues, the Public Relations
and Mass Media Department, RA Government Staff, reports. During the
meeting Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Tigran Sargsyan
reported on the RA Government’s corruption control strategy for the
CBA and on the actions taken to implement the strategy. He also
reported what has been done by the Council to meet the commitments
Armenia assumed by signing international conventions and agreements.
Sargsyan pointed out that a number of measures were taken during the
period under review to draft bills on Money Laundering Control, on
Settlement System and on Exchange Regulation and Control, as well as
of official explanations of the CBA regulations.
Chairman of the State Commission for Protection of Economic
Competition Ashot Shakhnazaryan also reported on the Commission’s
work under the corruption control strategy, as well as pointed to
some discrepancies in legislation, which are the ground for
corruption risks.
RA Minister of Justice David Harutyunyan reported on the problems of
legislative regulation of the control.
In conclusion, RA Prime-Minister Andranik Margaryan instructed to
place the reports on the Governmental web-site to make them available
for public. A.A. -0–

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS