MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE EUROPEAN CRITERION

LRAGIR.AM
17:35:32 – 31/03/2009

On March 31, the speaker of the Armenian National Assemble Hovik
Abrahamyan met with the honored priest of the Armenian Evangelistic
Church Rene Levonyan. The collocutors discussed the amendments
to the Armenian law on the freedom of conscience and religious
organizations. The Speaker of the National Assemble said that the
draft was sent to the CoE Venice committee and to the OSCE office
for democratic institutes and human rights in order to get their
joint examination conclusion. Hovik Abrahamyan noted that the RA
constitution for the freedom of conscience and religious organizations
must correspond with the European criterion. The National Assemble
Committee of public relations reports.