NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON MARCH 20

Noyan Tapan
March 21, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly on March 20
ratified the Council of Europe Convention on the Fight agaisnt Human
Trafficking signed in Warsaw on May 16, 2005, by which Armenia assumed
a number of commitments envisaging such measures as improvement of
the legislation and implementation of social and economic programs
to assist with physical, psychological and social rehabilitation of
human trafficking victims.

The National Assembly also ratified the Convention on International
Exhibitions signed in Paris on November 22, 1928, together with the
protocols amended and added later. The convention aims to regulate
the general terms of organization and management of international
exhibitions and the obligations of exhibition organizers and
participating states. 140 states have joined this convention,
which covers all international exhibitions, except for those with a
duration of less than 3 weeks, high art exhibitions and exhibitions
of commercional nature.