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    COOPERATION FOR THE GENDER EQUALITY

    National Assembly of RA
    Nov 30 2009
    Armenia

    On November 30, within the project Wo/Men in Politics the RA National
    Assembly in the name of the Vice Speaker Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan and the
    British Council in the name of the British Council Office Director in
    Armenia Ms. Arevik Saribekyan signed a Memorandum of Understanding,
    by which cooperation on the issues of gender equality was envisaged.

    Vice Speaker Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan noted: the gender issues are
    in the centre of attention of legislative body and highlighted any
    effective cooperation directed to the solution of those issues. She
    expressed hope that such cooperation would also develop with the
    British Council. Mrs. Petrosyan noted that the Armenian Parliament
    shares the European approaches on gender equality, according to which,
    that equality is an important precondition of full honouring of human
    rights, democracy, elimination of poverty and provision of social
    justice and progress of legal state. According to Mrs. Petrosyan's
    assessment, in ensuring the gender equality, the National Assembly
    of the current convocation has prior solutions: the gender issues are
    also one of the main directions of the activities of the NA Standing
    Committee on the Protection of Human Rights and Public Rights, in
    the NA leadership the women deputies also are actively involved, the
    women deputies are actively involved both in internal and external
    processes. The Vice Speaker of the Parliament noted that the British
    Council had implemented a number of projects. Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan
    noted that with NA Speaker's knowledge the directions of cooperation
    had been agreed, and today this cooperation would be laid down on
    the more coordinated bases by the Memorandum of Understanding.

    The British Council Office Director i n Armenia Ms. Arevik Saribekyan
    noted that the rise of women's role in the politics had always been
    one of the prior directions of the British Council. She highlighted
    the cooperation of the Armenian Parliament and British Council,
    expressing hope that it would be more visible and stable by the
    Memorandum of Understanding.

    Deputy Head of Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
    Northern Ireland Mr. Gareth Wynn Owen also welcomed the cooperation
    of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the British
    Council.

    NA Vice Speaker Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan expressed hope that though the
    Memorandum was signed with one year term, but would be possible to
    continue later, too.
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