TASK GROUP TO DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO CRIMINAL CODE FORMED AT ARMENIAN NA

ARKA
Jan 26, 2009

YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. Speaker of the RA Parliament Hovik
Abramyan signed a decree last Friday forming a task group to
draft amendments to Articles 225 (Mass unrest) and 300 (Attempted
accroachment of power) of the RA Criminal Code.

The Public Relations Department, RA parliament, reported that
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Commission for State and
Legal Affairs David Harutyunyan has been appointed Head of the task
group. The group also includes Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing
Commission for Foreign Relations Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the
Standing Commission for European Integration Avet Adonts, as well
as the member of the Standing Commission for Finance, Credit and
Budgetary Affairs Artsruni Aghajanyan.

The task group was instructed to involve the ad hoc commission for the
March 1-2 events, consider the issue of harmonizing the decisional
law standards of the European Court on Human Rights in drafting the
amendments, as well as the principle of legal significance of law. The
Chairman of the task group was instructed to present proposals before
February 19, 2009.