AREVIK PETROSYAN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MET WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UN

National Assembly of RA
March 3 2009

On March 2 Ms. Arevik Petrosyan, Vice President of the National
Assembly received the UN Permanent Representative in the Republic of
Armenia and UNDP Resident Coordinator Ms. Consuelo Vidal- Bruce.

During the meeting it was mutually highlighted the cooperation of the
Yerevan office of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
and the United Nations.

Ms. Consuelo Vidal-Bruce said that their organization with the Republic
of Armenia was debating a project of six-months support, and asked
for Ms. Petrosyan to present proposals on concrete directions with
the cooperation of the National Assembly.

Ms. Petrosyan noted the necessity of realizing comparative, analytical
and expert works, on the support of retraining of experts, exchange
of experience as well as on technical assistance. She also highlighted
the further projects with the NGOs and Youth. It was decided to enact
the debated issues as written offers, in order to include them in
further projects.

On the same day Ms. Arevik Petrosyan received Ms. Laylee
Moshiri-Gilani, Head of the Armenian Office of the United Nations
Children’s Fund.

Ms. Laylee Moshiri-Gilani noted that the United Nations Children’s
Fund pays more attention to the cooperation with the parliaments in
three directions – improvement of the legislation, implementation of
relevant laws with application of the mechanisms of the parliamentary
control and social financing of children. She said that an important
place will be given to the analysis of the situation, children’s
poverty and mechanisms of protection of children, in the projects of
the current year having added, that the report, on the role of the
parliament in the Committee of protection of children, Armenia will
present at the end of the year.

Ms. Petrosyan touched upon the legislation, related to the children’s
protection. She asked the guests to present the urgent cycle of the
issues by United Nations Children’s Fund and also the proposals,
which were not adopted for this or that reasons, and the issues
that need to have comprehensive regulation, could be solved by joint
work. The Vice President of the National Assembly noted that though
the breaches of the children’s rights are not common in our country
they need serious attention and the productive solution of those
issues are considered with active cooperation of all institutions
dealing with the protection of children’s rights.

Also other issues, related to awareness of children, education of
children, requiring special care, the development of their skills
and protection of children were debated during the meeting.

It was decided the meetings to be continuous, to develop concrete
projects of cooperation, which would have purposeful solutions.