The meeting of the OSCE Democratic Institutions and the Human Rights Office (ODIHR) experts and the deputies of the RA NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs took place on February 18.
At the core of the discussions, there was a topic of the Code of Parliamentary Farership and Behavior.
"It is for a long time, the issue of having the best model of the Ethics Committee of the RA National Assembly is being discussed.
We have a preliminary project, "said Vladimir Vardanyan, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs and highly appreciated the support of the OSCE / ODIHR in this process.
Arusyak Julhakyan, Deputy Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, noted that the work on the development of the rules of the Ethics Committee and the deputy's behavior in the seventh convocation, due to a number of circumstances, have been postponed.
Now that work has resumed.
According to the MP, having an ethics committee is important, as it is conditioned by the development of political, democratic culture in the parliament and the establishment of the political system in general.
"If we had clear rules of behavior, we had a functional ethics committee on the deputies," Arusyak Julhakyan expressed confidence in the importance of ensuring a fellowship in the parliament. "Accountability, The fulfillment, transparency is not only vital, but also strengthens and strengthens the foundations of democracy, because you represent your people.
It is important that members of the parliament meet the highest level of fellowship, and the people have trust in institutions.
Therefore, the rules of well-defined behavior are very important for both parliaments and other institutions, "said Yulia Mettova, head of the OSCE / ODIHR Democratic Management and Gender. The proposals of the group of states of the struggle), which also attach importance to the existence of the Standing Committee on Ethics.
Then the OSCE / ODIHR Democratic Management Expert, Nina Charturia, which coordinated the ODIHR anti-corruption issues, presented the ODIHR's work in the field of public ethics and fellowships in the OSCE region.
It was noted that in 2007 the rules of conduct in the OSCE region had 9 parliaments, and today 43.
Detailed reference was made to the main concepts and mechanisms of the parliamentary fellowship, the sanctions on the sanctions, the anti-corruption directions in the case of violation, the issue of violence against women in politics, the conflict of interest.
The peculiarities of the fellowship system in parliaments with a number of countries, behavioral rules have been presented.
The issue of the question and answer session was followed by the discussion of the draft Code of Code and the Framework of the Parliamentary Court of the Parliament.
The participants of the discussion highlighted the definition of the rules of conduct typical of the RA parliamentary culture. It is expressed, a stable mechanism is necessary, which will fully implement its functionality of the change of political forces.
At the end of the end, Arusyak Julhakyan highlighted such meetings and made an offer to organize such a discussion in the near future and to address the more substantive address.
