Sona Ayvazyan, the Executive Director of the CRD/TI Armenia, participated in the press conference held in the House of Journalists of Armenia on June 07, 2006. The event was organized by the Initiative Group of non-governmental organizations in order to present to the media the position of a group of active NGOs on the draft Law of RA "On Lobbying". According to the NGOs, this law will hamper the opportunities of the Armenian citizens and their groups to do advocacy work and will kill the institute of the civil society in its embryonic stage- putting in danger the values of democracy in Armenia.

More than a hundred of NGOs have already joined the advocacy campaign organized by the Initiative Group.