Task group to draft amendments to criminal code formed at Armenian NA
YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. Speaker of the RA Parliament Hovik Abramyan signed a decree last Friday forming a task group to draft amendments to Articles 225 (Mass unrest) and 300 (Attempted accroachment of power) of the RA Criminal Code.
The Public Relations Department, RA parliament, reported that Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Commission for State and Legal Affairs David Harutyunyan has been appointed Head of the task group. The group also includes Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Commission for Foreign Relations Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the Standing Commission for European Integration Avet Adonts, as well as the member of the Standing Commission for Finance, Credit and Budgetary Affairs Artsruni Aghajanyan.
The task group was instructed to involve the ad hoc commission for the March 1-2 events, consider the issue of harmonizing the decisional law standards of the European Court on Human Rights in drafting the amendments, as well as the principle of legal significance of law. The Chairman of the task group was instructed to present proposals before February 19, 2009. –0--