FIRST SITTING OF ADVISORY BOARD OF CENTER FOR EUROPEAN LAW AND
INTEGRATION HELD BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The first and foremost goal of the
Center for European Law and Integration created in 2006 in Yerevan is
to inform the public about the importance and activity of European
Union (EU) institutions. Board Chairman, RA Justice Minister David
Haroutiunian stated this in his interview to journalists held on March
19, after the first sitting of Center’s Board. In his words, over the
past year the Center has already trained high-quality specialists on
the line of law, international relations and foreign languages.

According to the press release of Center’s Press Service, the funds
provided by EU for founding the Center for European Law and
Integration amounted to 915 thousand euros. The Center located in the
premises of Yerevan State University plans to have a Resource Center
with a library having 2 thousand titles of books. "The library will
provide information and publishing services to researchers, lecturers,
students and other interested people," the press release read.

By the way, it is noteworthy that against the same press release,
according to which the event, the first sitting of the Center for
European Law and Integration, was to be open for journalists, was held
behind closed doors. Before the meeting with the Minister the
representative of the Press Service of the Center advised journalists
"to satisfy themselves" with the press release given to them.