Pashinyan has a political goal to form zero tolerance towards corruption in Armenia
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YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS. Public zero tolerance to corruption should be formed and formulated in Armenia, and this is the political goal we are going to implement, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during the session of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council on August 30.
“It’s clear to everyone that the Armenian government has a political will to fully fight corruption, is consistent and will be consistent on this matter. When we say that we managed to eradicate the systematic corruption in Armenia, this is also seen from the public’s reaction because I saw data in this document that according to the polls conducted in May more than 84% of the Armenian citizens stated that they didn’t face corruption cases, which, is, of course, a very important record”, Pashinyan said.
However, he said that over the past one year they also faced certain institutional problems and difficulties connected with the fight against corruption.
“The fight against corruption, the investigations of corruption cases and also the restorations of damages caused by corruption are not going on with the volumes and scales we all and the public have a right to expect. There are many objective and subjective issues here, and among them the institutional problems are also very important. Some of these institutional problems are noticed from the first sight, but the second part is not noticed from the first sight, and I think that we need to be very consistent in this sense in order to strengthen the ongoing fight against corruption with the creation of some new institutional procedures”, the PM said.
Nikol Pashinyan added that during this period they have carried out quite a broad and qualified work to be orientated on anti-corruption strategy directions and fix how they imagine the future institutional development of fighting corruption.
“The political recording that is important today is that our government is going to be consistent in the fight against corruption, and here there cannot be any compromise. We have formed a political task that a public zero tolerance should be formed Armenia towards corruption, and this is the political goal we are going to implement”, he said.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan