CE Ready to Assist Armenian Government in Reforms

The Council of Europe (CE) is ready to do its best to assist the Government of Armenia in holding reforms, Head of Ago Group, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the CE Roland Wegener stated in Yerevan. In his words, it will be necessary to spend two years to make the country’s legislation comply with the reformed Constitution. “This job is hard, however compulsory. We discussed the matter with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, the Justice Minister and in the Parliament. Changes should be made in the judicial legislation, Law on Police, Criminal and Civil Codes, Law on the City of Yerevan. However, the most important task is changes in the Electoral Code, without which democratic elections in the parliament in 2007 will not be possible,” Wegener said.