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General Meeting of CRD/TI Armenia members was held on July 25, 2006 in the office of the NGO.

The agenda of the meeting included the following issues: approval of the annual report of the organization, Transparency International re-accreditation process, adoption of modifications to the Organization's Code of Conduct, admission of new members and elections of the Board, the Oversight Committee and the Chair of the organization.

CRD/TI Armenia NGO held a round-table discussion on "Anti-Corruption Policy in Armenia" with participation of NGOs on July 21, 2006 in "Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan". The roundtable addressed issues related to plans, approaches and potential cooperation of NGOs in the fight against corruption.

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia passed a decision yesterday at its private session that the commitments set forth in the New York Anticorruption Convention executed on 31 October, 2003 correspond to the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.

The second TI Progress Report on OECD Convention Enforcement examines the enforcement performance of 31 of the 36 countries that have ratified the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials.

A discussion over Draft Law of RA "On Lobbying" was held by Partnership for Open Society on June 22, 2006 at 11:00 at the Erato Hall of Armenia Marriott hotel. Presentations were made by David Sandukhchyan, Head of Legal Department, Internews-Armenia NGO, Ashot Abovyan, Deputy Minister of Justice and Sona Ayvazyan, Executive Director, CRD/TI Armenia.

On June 13, 2006, the CRD/TI Armenia NGO organized a meeting of the Environmental Public Alliance of the Armenian NGOs at the Public Environmental Information Center (Aarhus Center), to discuss the proposals under consideration of the Armenian Government related to the management system of the City of Yerevan and the pertinent environmental issues.

On June 13 2006 the joint delegation of the NATO's Parliamentary Assembly Future Security and Defense Capabilities Subcommittee of the Defense and Security Committee and Subcommittee on Democratic Governance of the Committee on Civil Dimension of Security met with the representatives of Armenian civil society.

Amalia Kostanyan, Chairwoman of CRD/TI Armenia was invited to participate at the Fifth Monitoring Meeting and Seventh Advisory Group Meeting under the Istanbul Anti-corruption Action Plan organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Secretariat of the Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) which took place in Paris, France on 12-13 June 2006.

Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Vice-Chair of the CRD/TI Armenia participated in a seminar "The Role of European Integration and Criteria of Sociopolitical Reforms in Armenia" organized by Yerevan Press Club and Friedrich Ebert Foundation on June 9-10 in Goris, Syunik region.

Amalia Kostanyan, Chairwoman of CRD/TI Armenia, was invited as a guest speaker to the forum organized by Depi Hayk Foundation (Birthright Armenia) on Wednesday, June 7, 2006.