CE Ministers’ Committee Approves Program Of Action As Part OfArmenia

CE MINISTERS’ COMMITTEE APPROVES PROGRAM OF ACTION AS PART OF ARMENIA-CE COOPERATION IN 2006-2007

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 16, 2006

YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. The CE Ministers’ Committee has approved a
program of action as part of the Armenia-CE cooperation for 2006-2007,
the press and information department, RA Foreign Office, reported.

RA Permanent Ambassador to the CE, Ambassador Christian Ter-Stepanyan
reported that the program takes into account the program made by
Armenia in executing its commitments during its 5-year membership in
CE. He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the document considers
the prospects opened up after the adoption of constitutional reforms in
consolidating the human rights system, independence of the country’s
judicial power and activities of democratic institutions, through the
development of civil society, political parties and local democracy.

“The program becomes the most useful from the moment of the RA
Government’s approval of the schedule of legislative reforms, which
were necessitated by the referendum on constitutional reforms held
in 2005,” he said.

“We realize that this cooperation will help Armenia harmonize
its legislation with European standards and implement a policy of
reforms necessary for intensifying Armenia’s European integration,”
Ter-Stepanyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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