18 female representatives of Armenian political parties to pay
cognitive visit to Great Britain
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YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. 18 female representatives of
parliamentary and extraparliamentary political parties functioning in
Armenia and 3 RA NA deputies will be in Great Britain on a cognitive
visit on March 9-14 within the framework of the Wo/Men in Politics
program implemented with the financing of the Embassy of Great Britain
in RA.
According to the British Council Armenian Office, visit’s goal is to
acquaint Armenian politicians with Great Britain’s parliamentary
system, parliamentarians’ legislative activity and to create a
possibility for cooperation. During the visit the interlocutors will
also have a possibility to get acquainted with women’s and men’s
rights, with laws regarding equal possibilities in politics and their
use in Great Britain.
Visits to parliaments of England, Wales, and Scotland, meetings with
representatives of standing parliamentary committees and deputies, as
well as with representatives of civil society are planned within the
framework of the visit. Rosemarie Butler, the Vice-Speaker of
parliament of Wales, will receive the representatives of political
parties and the deputies in Wales.
The Wo/Men in Politics two-year program launched in 2008 July is
implemented by British Council with the financing of the Embassy of
Great Britain in RA. The program is aimed at raising women’s role in
the political sphere, at development of skills, establishment of new
cooperation possibilities.