DELEGATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA IN SAINT PETERSBURG

National Assembly of RA
April 4 2008
Armenia

On April 3 in Saint Petersburg the President of the National Assembly
Mr. Tigran Torosyan had meetings with the Speaker of the State Duma
of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(PA CSTO) Mr. Boris Gryzlov and the Chairman of the Federal Council,
Chairman of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth
Independent States Mr. Sergey Mironov. During the meeting the sides
discussed issues concerning the bilateral inter-parliamentary relations
and the development of cooperation within IPA CIS framework.

Within the framework of IPA CIS Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan, Vice President
of the National Assembly was elected Deputy Chairman of the Standing
Committee for Political Issues and International Cooperation of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization,
and Mrs. Hermine Naghdalyan – Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee
on Social Policy and Human Rights of the Interparliamentary Assembly
of the Commonwealth Independent States.

Mrs. Hermine Naghdalyan also participated in the works of the PA
CSTO Committee on Social-Economic and Legal Issues, in the agenda
of which the issue of unification and harmonization of the state
legislations of CSTO member-states in the direction of fighting
against international terrorism, illicit traffic of narcotic drugs and
psychotropic substances was included. At the sitting the relevant laws
of the Republic of Armenia against those phenomena, as well as the
amendments to the criminal and administrative codes of the Republic
of Armenia being debated at present in the National Assembly of the
Republic of Armenia were presented.