YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Several large international conferences will be organized this year at RA National Assembly. They will be dedicated to issues of fighting terrorism, ban on chemical weapons, cooperation between regions and towns, development of democratic reforms. RA National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian informed about it at the April 4 press conference mentioning that there are already agreements, in particular, with the European Union and the U.S around organizing them. The coming international conference will be held on April 6-7. It is dedicated to problems of fighting corruption. As NA Speaker mentioned, after the conference it is expected that Armenia will join the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) authoritative international organization. A great number of countries have joined this organization. The organization's Secretary General and representative delegations of more than 10 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, the Ukraine, Georgia, will take part in the conference. According to Artur Baghdasarian, in case of joining GOPAC a good opportunity will be created in Armenia for involving the political parties, the civil society and mass media in fighting corruption and the latters will be able to as actively as possible take part in the process of public monitoring on using all credits and grants received by the country. It was mentioned that at present Armenia is already a member to another organization on fighting corruption, Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO). However, in NA Speaker's opinion, it is difficult to overestimate the political significance of membership to GOPAC. As NA Speaker affirmed, the formation of the respective structures on fighting corruption only at the level of the executive power cannot be very efficient and this regards not only Armenia. "We should do our best for the law not to be powerless before arbitrariness, especially in some cases and spheres we meet," NA Speaker declared.

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