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On September 22 the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on European Integration Naira Zohrabyan met with Natalia Vutova, Head of the CoE Office in Armenia.

As a PAP Chair, Mrs Zohrabyan introduced the guest the approaches of the party on the constitutional amendments, noting that the abovementioned amendments were thoroughly discussed in 64 territorial structures of the party.

In the course of the meeting issues concerning the foreign and domestic political processes of Armenia were discussed. The sides touched upon the cooperation between the CoE Office in Armenia and the NA Standing Committee on European Integration. Mrs Zohrabyan has noted that the Committee led by her is ready to be actively involved in the processes of the implementation of the CoE-Armenia new programme. The new programme of the CoE is directed to the domestic violence, the prevention of the corruption in the state system, the disclosure of the cases of the soldiers who died in the peaceful conditions in the army, the overcoming of the corruption risks in the educational and healthcare systems. Mrs Zohrabyan highlighted the parliamentary oversight over those processes. The parties discussed the mechanisms of the implementation of the abovementioned programmes under the control of the parliament, in particular, the Standing Committee on European Integration. The Committee Chair has stated that it is important for her that these processes carry not an imitational character, but give effective results. In her word, not always the abovementioned programmes reach their goal as in many cases they are of imitational character, and the coefficient of useful action is low. The interlocutors discussed the mechanisms that will give an opportunity to reach greater efficiency as a result of the implementation of those programmes.