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    51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JUDGES HELD IN YEREVAN

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=117204
    Se p 9, 2008

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The opening ceremony of the 51st
    annual conference of the International Association of Judges (IAJ)
    took place in Yerevan on September 8. 216 judges from 53 countries
    are participating in the conference. Armenia joined the IAJ in 2005.

    The participants will discuss issues related to independence of
    judicial power from executive power and to disciplinary liability of
    judges, in partucular, the issue of initiating a disciplinary procedure
    against a judge by the other branches of power. The conference will
    last until September 11.

    The election of the IAJ president and his deputies will be held and
    the place of the next 52nd conference of the association will be
    decided during the Yerevan conference.

    The chairman of the RA Cassation Court Hovhannes Manukian attached
    importance to the fact that a conference of IAJ, a structure promoting
    the independence and efficient work of judicial power, is being held
    in Armenia - for the first time in the CIS. He pointed out the fight
    against corruption and the protection of the principle of everyone's
    equality before the law as the most important problems. In his words,
    in order to fight effectively against corruption, it is necessary
    that society place a social order, while political power display a
    definite will. The chairman of the RA Cassation Court said that the
    people's trust in the judicial system is quite low, and the society
    has serious doubts about impartiality and honesty of judges.

    The sittings of the European Association of Judges, as well as of
    the IAJ's regional groups (Latin American, African, and Asian, North
    American and Oceanian Groups) took place within the framework of the
    conference. In the evening the guests went to the Tsitsernakaberd
    Memorial Complex and the Genocide Museum to pay a tribute of respect
    to the Armenian Genocide victims.
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