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PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE DAY MARKED IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Prosecutor General, Aghvan
Hovsepian, during the official sitting dedicated to the 89th
anniversary of the Armenian Prosecutor's Office, said that thanks to
close cooperation between the law enforcement bodies and the
Prosecutor's Office, crime spreading in Armenia is considerably
inferior to the indices of many Council of Europe member-countries.
In his words, the new law "On the Prosecutor's Office," which came into
force two months ago, is a law of a prosecutor's office developing by
the democratic way, which "by its internal logic is aimed at the
protection of citizen's rights and freedoms, as well as state
interests." A. Hovsepian said that proceeding from the new law's
requirements, thay have established the structures of the Prosecutor
General's Office and Military Prosecutor's Office, have formed
prosecutors' qualification and ethics commissions, and have made other
changes envisaged by the law. As he evaluated, taking the
investigator's structure out of the system of the prosecutor's office
will lead to department changes: that process will finish by December 1.
A. Hovsepian said that the RA Prosecutor's Office is expanding its
foreign contacts: the Prosecutor's Office cooperates with the
Prosecutors' International Association, takes part in annual
conferences of Council of Europe member-states' Prosecutor Generals, as
well in the proceedings of the Coordination Council of CIS Prosecutor
Generals. The latter's regular sitting, as the RA Prosecutor General
said, is planned to be held in autumn this year in Yerevan.
YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Prosecutor General, Aghvan
Hovsepian, during the official sitting dedicated to the 89th
anniversary of the Armenian Prosecutor's Office, said that thanks to
close cooperation between the law enforcement bodies and the
Prosecutor's Office, crime spreading in Armenia is considerably
inferior to the indices of many Council of Europe member-countries.
In his words, the new law "On the Prosecutor's Office," which came into
force two months ago, is a law of a prosecutor's office developing by
the democratic way, which "by its internal logic is aimed at the
protection of citizen's rights and freedoms, as well as state
interests." A. Hovsepian said that proceeding from the new law's
requirements, thay have established the structures of the Prosecutor
General's Office and Military Prosecutor's Office, have formed
prosecutors' qualification and ethics commissions, and have made other
changes envisaged by the law. As he evaluated, taking the
investigator's structure out of the system of the prosecutor's office
will lead to department changes: that process will finish by December 1.
A. Hovsepian said that the RA Prosecutor's Office is expanding its
foreign contacts: the Prosecutor's Office cooperates with the
Prosecutors' International Association, takes part in annual
conferences of Council of Europe member-states' Prosecutor Generals, as
well in the proceedings of the Coordination Council of CIS Prosecutor
Generals. The latter's regular sitting, as the RA Prosecutor General
said, is planned to be held in autumn this year in Yerevan.