Pashinyan considers current fight against corruption ineffective

YEREVAN, 4 December. /ARKA/. The fight against corruption in Armenia is currently not effective enough, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

‘Speaking about anti-corruption policy, instinctively, the policy of punishment is taken into account first of all. That is, the one who engages in corruption should be caught and punished, which is correct,' Pashinyan said during a government Q&A session in Parliament on Wednesday.

However, he said, it is important that trustworthiness is not an after-the-fact thing, but that it becomes a social psychology, because this problem is always present.  

Pashinyan said it is necessary to pursue an institutional path, to fight phenomena that breed corruption, to have higher standards of trustworthiness.

‘Law enforcement agencies should be more active in fighting corruption,’ he added.-0-