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A session of the Anti-Corruption Council headed by the Prime Minister T. Sargsyan took place in the Government. Vice President of the RA National Assembly Edward Sharmazanov, the RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Head of the RA Police Vladimir Gasparyan, the RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan, Head of the Presidential Oversight Service Hovhannes Hovsepyan, representatives of the ‘Heritage’, ‘Orinac Yerkir’, ARF, as well as number of social and international organizations took part in it.

Press Service of the RA Government informs that the assistant to the RA President Gevorg Kotoyan presented during the session the directions of the increase of anti-corruption policy exercised by the Government, after which the President of the Ethics Committee of Senior Officials Emile Babayan reported the issues of the formation of the Ethics Committee of Senior Officials.

An exchange of thoughts took place, different suggestions were introduced aimed at eliminating the blanks and issues. Particularly it was suggested to establish specialized working groups, which will give a chance to substantially improve the quality of analysis and reveal the reasons behind the corruption, ensure the publicity of program implementation and include the representatives of civil society in those activities.

‘We should reveal present corruption displays by ourselves. If the authorities do not reveal them, the society, which realizes that corruption is a real evil in this country, loses the trust in the authorities. For this reason we have adopted this policy, we have to reveal corruption displays by ourselves, which will be followed by precise punishments, visible to the public’ T. Sargsyan said.

The Head of the Government gave importance to the participation of the civil society in decision making and activities of supervision of their implementation.

Summing up the work of the session, the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to the representatives of the public organizations and political groups for their participation and expressed hope regarding further suggestions in the written form from the latter, which will become a matter of a discussion.

‘We are open to discussion and we will always preserve this format. It is obvious that the situation established in the sector of the fight against corruption does not satisfy us. The RA President gave severe remarks and expects from us decisive steps, which we can realize only through joint efforts. Neither the authorities, nor the opposition or the society can be successful in the fight against corruption if there is no cooperation. Thus we need to find the right framework of that cooperation. We need to reveal primary 3-4 sectors and concentrate our efforts on the reasons behind the corruption’ noted T. Sargsyan. According to the words of the Head of the Government the support of the international donor organizations will highly contribute to the substantial increase of the reforms’ capacity.