RA Prosecutor General receives OSCE delegation
On March 9, RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, had a meeting with ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic and the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan Ambassador Sergey Kapinos. The employees of the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the RA General Prosecutor's Office participated at the meeting.
The suggestions made by ODIHR on the new concept of the RA Criminal Procedure Code and the RA General Prosecutor's Office's standpoints concerning this concept were discussed during the meeting.
The RA Prosecutor General expressed his gratitude to Mr. Lenarcic for the suggestions, readiness for cooperation and the achieved positive results. A. Hovsepyan informed the guests that the packages on the reforms of the RA Criminal Procedure Code based on the new concept were ready and the Government would soon propose them to the National Assembly for debate.
The RA Prosecutor General mentioned that the RA President had also highlighted the issue of the adaption of the new Criminal Procedure Code and by the decree of the President a working group had been formed headed by the President of the RA Constitutional Court and the work procedures and the deadlines had been set.
ODIHR Director J. Lenarcic thanked A. Hovsepyan for the close cooperation and stressed that the adaption of the new Criminal Procedure Code would show the correspondence of the RA Legislation with the international standards and the obligations undertaken by the Republic of Armenia. The Ambassador Lenarcic also mentioned the importance of the RA President's attention to the new concept of the RA Criminal Procedure Code and that the process of reforms had activated in Armenia recently.
The RA Prosecutor General also said that the OSCE Office in Yerevan conducted monitoring of the reforms in the prosecutorial system in order to clarify the correspondence of the prosecutorial system with the international standards based on the results of the reforms.
At the end of the meeting the guests thanked the RA Prosecutor General for the readiness of cooperation and mutually expressed willingness to support the RA General Prosecutor's Office to solve problematic issues in the framework of the OSCE Mandate. A. Hovsepyan thanked the OSCE delegation and mentioned that the cooperation with the OSCE Office in Yerevan had always had positive results.
