OSCE OFFICE OPENS ANTI-CORRUPTION PUBLIC RECEPTION IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Apr 17 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. An Anti-Corruption Public Reception
opened in Yerevan on April 16 with the assistance of the OSCE Armenian
Office.

Citizens will be given legal, procedure and practical consultations
concerning cases of corruption. The reception was founded based on the
experience of the coalition of 14 public organizations implemented
experimental anti-corruption programs. The coalition was founded in
2006. Similar receptions will open in May in Lori and Gegharkunik
as well.

In the words of Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, the OSCE Yerevan Office
head, the goal of the center is to reduce possible corruption risks,
increasing the level of legislative knowledge among the society,
aware citizens about their corruption risks. "The reception is a good
example of cooperation among the civil society, authorities and the
OSCE," office head V. Pryakhin mentioned.

In his words, involvement of civil society in corruption activities
in Armenia is one of the most important preconditions for overcoming
this evil.

Ambassador Pryakhin is sure that there are no such observations and
indexes yet by which sizes of reduction or increase of corruption
in Armenia are correctly estimated. In Pryakhin’s words, reforms
in the judicial-legal, traffic police systems took place today in
Armenia. Those speak about liquidation of just those phenomena.