YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Prosecutor General, Aghvan Hovsepian, during the solemn sitting dedicated to the 89th anniversary of the Armenian Prosecutor's Office, said that thanks to close cooperation between the law enforcement bodies and the Prosecutor's Office, crime spreading in Armenia is considerably inferior to the indices of many Council of Europe member-countries. In his words, the new law "On Prosecutor's Office," which came into force two months ago, is a law of a prosecutor's office developing by the democratic way, which "by its internal logic is aimed at protection of citizen's rights and freedoms, as well as state interests." A. Hovsepian said that proceeding from the new law's requirements, thay have established the structures of the Prosecutor General's Office and Military Prosecutor's Office, have formed prosecutors' qualification and ethics commissions, have made other changes envisaged by the law. As he evaluated, taking the investigator's structure out of the system of prosecutor's office will lead to cadre changes: that process will finish until December 1. A. Hovsepian said that the RA Prosecutor's Office expands its foreign contacts: the Prosecutor's Office cooperates with the Prosecutors' International Association, takes part in annual conferences of Council of Europe member-states' Prosecutor Generals, as well in the proceedings of the Coordination Council of CIS Prosecutor Generals. The latter's regular sitting, as the RA Prosecutor General said, is planned to the held in autumn this year in Yerevan.

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