EXAMINATION IN GRECO
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
June 24, 2008
Armenia
In its plenary session held on June 9-13, the Group of States against
Corruption (GRECO) discussed the report on Armenia’s compliance with
the relevant recommendations.
As informed by Arthur Osikyan, Head of the Armenian Delegation in GRECO
and Deputy Chair of the State Tax Agency, of the 24 recommendations
12 were considered accomplished, 9 – partially accomplished and 3 –
not accomplished at all.
In the draft report of the GRECO Secretariat (represented by Bulgaria
and Iceland) sent to Armenia on June 6, it was mentioned that 10
recommendations were fulfilled while 4 others were not. The Armenian
delegation, however, managed to bring its arguments to prove that
those assessments did not reflect the reality.
The time-limit for the implementation of the partially accomplished
and unaccomplsihed recommendations has been extended till December
31, 2009.
"Thus, the recommendations of GRECO were accomplished by 50 percent,
and only 12 percent is considered unaccomplished. This is a good
result for the country. What has been achieved by serious work is a
good result in comparison with the assessments received from other
countries as well.
Serious work has been carried out for earning a positive assessment,
and this will certainly bear its fruit in the near future," A. Osikyan
is convinced.