CONCEPTION OF NKR COURT AND LEGAL SYSTEM REFORMS TO BE WORKED OUT

Noyan Tapan
Feb 5, 2008

STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The consultation convened by NKR
President Bako Sahakian on February 5 was dedicated to the problems
in the country’s court and legal system, as well as the necessity of
implementing reforms in that sphere. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the
General Information Department of the NKR President’s Administration,
judges of NKR supreme and first instance courts, NKR Justice Minister
Narine Narimanian, and NKR Prosecutor General Arshavir Gharamian, as
well as Head of the NKR President’s Administration Marat Musayelian
took part in the consultation.

B. Sahakian said that active work should be done in the direction
of working out a conception of court and legal system’s reforms and
preparing the respective legislative package, for the purpose of
which a working group has been created lately. He also touched upon
the discontent with the court and legal system in society today. In
consideration of the above mentioned circumstance, B. Sahakian called
the participants of the consultation for treating their duties
seriously and with responsibility, for liquidating all negative
phenomena existing in the system. In this connection the head of the
country attached importance to transparency of judges’ work, to their
impartiality adding that citizens’ interest should be considered
as the most important. He also mentioned the necessity of closer
cooperation between judicial, law enforcement, and justice structures.