YEREVAN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. An Anti-Corruption Public Reception opened in Yerevan on April 16 with the assistance of the OSCE Armenian Office. Citizens will be given legal, procedure and practical consultations concerning cases of corruption. The reception was founded based on the experience of the coalition of 14 public organizations implemented experimental anti-corruption programs. The coalition was founded in 2006. Similar receptions will open in May in Lori and Gegharkunik as well. In the words of Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, the OSCE Yerevan Office head, the goal of the center is to reduce possible corruption risks, increasing the level of legislative knowledge among the society, aware citizens about their corruption risks. "The reception is a good example of cooperation among the civil society, authorities and the OSCE," office head V. Pryakhin mentioned. In his words, involvement of civil society in corruption activities in Armenia is one of the most important preconditions for overcoming this evil. Ambassador Pryakhin is sure that there are no such observations and indexes yet by which sizes of reduction or increase of corruption in Armenia are correctly estimated. In Pryakhin's words, reforms in the judicial-legal, traffic police systems took place today in Armenia. Those speak about liquidation of just those phenomena.

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