YEREVAN, APRIL 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The consistent anti-corruption struggle is a political necessity for Armenia. Parliament Speaker Artur Baghdasarian stated about this at the "Role of RA NA - Civil Soceity Cooperation in Anti-Corruption Struggle" started at the RA National Assembly on April 6. According to him, on the way of consistent deepening of democratic reforms, creation of free and competitive market, displays of corruption are a serious obstacle. Corruption, not consoling indexes of shady economy, red-tape, bureaucratic usage of not transparent methods in separate administrative-managing circles obstacle the process of reforms," the NA Speaker mentioned. According to him, a number of problems closely relates to the anti-corruption struggle, particularly, transparent and productive activity of the state government bodies, consistent and impartial usage of the law, reforms of the tax, customs, legal-judicial systems, the level of citizens' awareness of their rights, parliamentary control towards budget processes, credits and loans. As for the latter, A.Baghdasarian attached importance to the RA NA membership to the Global Organization of Parliamentaries Against Corruption (GOPAC), and foundation of the National Structure in Armenia. Representatives of all the political forces of the Parliament are involved in the above-mentioned structure. To recap, the GOPAC was created in 2002 and at present has regional and national parliamentary structures in more than 70 countries of the world. It cooperates with the World Bank, Development Agency of Canada and a number of international authoritative structures.

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