ARMENIA LEAVES CIS ECONOMIC COURT

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 22 2006

The Armenian parliament approved President Robert Kocharyan~Rs
proposal on suspending the CIS Economic Court in Armenia. The
minister of justice of Armenia Davit Harutiunyan explained this
decision by the circumstance that this organization does not have an
essential role in the economic life of the CIS, and its decisions are
mostly declarations. Besides, Armenia does not have a representative
to this court, including a financial representative. For his part,
Speaker Tigran Torosyan said Armenia does not want the dissolution of
the CIS.