RA NA RATIFIES AGREEMENT ON HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION COUNCIL OF STATE-PARTICIPANTS OF CIS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 18 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. At the December 18 special sitting,
the RA National Assembly ratified agreement On Humanitarian Cooperation
Council of State-Participants of CIS. It has been signed by nine CIS
countries (the Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova have not signed it). The
agreement came into force on June 22, 2007.

The parliament also ratified the reservations made by RA on convention
On Criteria of Democratic Elections, Suffrages and Freedoms in CIS
Participant States. According to the main reporter Gevorg Danielian,
the RA Minister of Justice, after the convention came into force
for Armenia on March 17, 2005, a number of amendments were made to
the Electoral Code, as a result of which non-correspondence emerged
among some provisions of the convention. This, in particular, regards
organization of votings outside the country and existence of a column
of voting "against" all candidates or all parties on the ballot-paper,
which is excluded by the current Armenian Electoral Code.