CONSISTENT ANTI-CORRUPTION STRUGGLE IS POLITICAL NECESSITY FOR ARMENIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The consistent anti-corruption struggle
is a political necessity for Armenia. Parliament Speaker Artur
Baghdasarian stated about this at the “Role of RA NA – Civil Soceity
Cooperation in Anti-Corruption Struggle” started at the RA National
Assembly on April 6. According to him, on the way of consistent
deepening of democratic reforms, creation of free and competitive
market, displays of corruption are a serious obstacle. Corruption, not
consoling indexes of shady economy, red-tape, bureaucratic usage of
not transparent methods in separate administrative-managing circles
obstacle the process of reforms,” the NA Speaker mentioned. According
to him, a number of problems closely relates to the anti-corruption
struggle, particularly, transparent and productive activity of the
state government bodies, consistent and impartial usage of the law,
reforms of the tax, customs, legal-judicial systems, the level of
citizens’ awareness of their rights, parliamentary control towards
budget processes, credits and loans. As for the latter, A.Baghdasarian
attached importance to the RA NA membership to the Global Organization
of Parliamentaries Against Corruption (GOPAC), and foundation of the
National Structure in Armenia. Representatives of all the political
forces of the Parliament are involved in the above-mentioned
structure. To recap, the GOPAC was created in 2002 and at present has
regional and national parliamentary structures in more than 70
countries of the world. It cooperates with the World Bank, Development
Agency of Canada and a number of international authoritative
structures.