Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 9 2006

2006 TO BE YEAR OF SERIOUS REFORMS IN JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEM OF
ARMENIA: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

YEREVAN, June 9. /ARKA/. 2006 will be the year of serious reforms in
the judicial and legal system of Armenia, Armenian President Robert
Kocharian reported during the ceremony of taking the oath by the
judges, appointed by the presidential decree as of 1 June 2006.
Kocharian pointed out that the first round of judicial and legal
reforms was implemented in 1998-1999. However, the following logical
steps were somewhat late.
The president reported that the development of the package of
judicial conception is now completed, and discussions of the document
initiated in the Public Prosecutor’s Office. `Our objective is to
fully prepare the legislative package of reforms,’ Kocharian said.
The following judges of the Economic court Samvel Grigoryan and Taron
Ghazaryan, judges of the Courts of first instance Alexander Ghazaryan
(Erebuni and Nubarashen districts of Yerevan), Samvel Tadevosyan
(Kentron and Nork-Marash districts), Harutyun Yenokyan and Hovhannes
Melkonyan (Shirak region) took the oath at the sitting of the Council
of Justice of Armenia at the presence of the Armenian President. R.O.
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