PACE DELEGATION TO VISIT ARMENIA TO EXAMINE GENDER EQUALITY

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 18 2006

YEREVAN, April 18. /ARKA/. A delegation of the PACE Committee for
gender equality is on a visit to Yerevan.

The delegation includes Reporter Vera Oskina and Jeanique Devout,
staff member, PACE Secretariat.

On April 16, the delegation held meetings with NGO representatives.

On April 17, Oskina and Devout held a meeting with RA Minister of
Health Norair Davisyan, RA Minister of Labor and Social Security
Aghvan Hovsepyan, RA Minister of Urban Development Aram Harutyunyan,
as well as with RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan.

The same day, the PACE delegation held meetings with Head of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, Vice-Speaker of the RA Parliament Tigran
Torosyan, Chairman of the Commission for Social Affairs, Health and
Ecology Gagik Mkheyan and Parliament members Hermine Nahdalyan and
Armenuhi Hovhannisyan.

Oskina and Devout are also to visit the Research Center of Obstetrics
and Perinatology and the correctional institution in Abovyan.