ISSUES OF MAKING AWARE OF CITIZENS’ LEGAL KNOWLEDGE DISCUSSED
National Assembly of RA, Armenia
March 16 2006
On March 16 Artur Baghdasaryan, President of the National Assembly,
received Karen Kendrick, Director of the American Bar Association
and the delegation headed by Richard Hyde, Deputy Head of Mission of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom.
During the meeting the sides focused on the issues concerning the
awareness of the citizens’ rights, rise of their legal knowledge, and
in that context the possibilities of cooperation with the National
Assembly. Mr. Hyde touched upon the problems of the citizens’ legal
knowledge, awareness of electoral process in the coming pan-national
elections, noting that the year 2006 can become a year of the peace
window, and the year 2007 – a year of democracy window for Armenia.
In those processes both sides highlighted the cooperation with the
National Assembly. An agreement was reached to determine the form
and volumes of the cooperation in the future discussions.