GRECO SUBMITS 24 PROPOSALS TO ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Mar 29 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 29, NOYAN TAPAN. In early March the Armenian national
report on corruption was discussed and adopted in the Council of
Europe. As Bagrat Yesayan, RA President’s Adviser, informed at the
March 29 press conference, at the same time, 24 proposals of the Group
of States against Corruption, GRECO, were also adopted. Armenia should
carry out them in the coming 1.5 years.
In particular, for strengthening full independence of judges in
their relations with the executive power it is suggested that the
legislation on organization of the judicial system be reconsidered, the
categories of persons inviolable from criminal prosecution be reduced,
the immunity of MP candidates, members of the Central Electoral
Commission, regional and local electoral commissions, community
heads and councillor members be liquidated. According to B.Yesayan,
the adoption of the law on declaration of physical persons’ property
is also one of the important steps in fighting corruption. It was
also mentioned that as a result of fighting corruption a material loss
amounting to 3 bln 487 mln drams has been revealed up to this day. Only
236.4 mln drams (about 524 thousand USD) out of this was restored.