YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. Bagrat Yesayan, the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee on Implementing Anti-Corruption Strategy presented the committee decision at the February 10 sitting of the RA Council on Anti-Corruption Struggle which was presided by Council Chairman, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian. Artur Osikian appointed the RA delegation head at the GRECO on the occasion of RA delegation head Ashot Galoyan's being appointed the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the RA to the Republic of Poland, was involved in the monitoring committee staff. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Government's Information and Public Relations Department, the Council discussed at the sitting the draft report presented as a result of summing up first and second stages of estimation implemented during the working visit paid to Armenia by the GRECO estimating group from May 30 to June 4, 2005. According to reporter Artur Osikian, the draft is envisaged to discuss and adopt during the GRECO plenary sitting to take place in March. The Council listened to and took into account the report of Hovhannes Manukian, the Chairman of the RA Court of Cassations, about the RA Government's Anti-Corrution Strategy concerning the sphere of activity of the RA Court of Cassations and program of implementation of the strategy as well as about the process of implementing obligations undertaken by the RA in the sphere of activity of that body according to international conventions and agreements.

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