ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES ICAO CONVENTION FOR UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES
ARKA
Oct 28, 2009
YEREVAN, October 28, /ARKA/. The Armenian parliament has ratified
today ICAO Convention for Unification of Certain Rules Relating to
International Carriage by Air.
Aram Marutyan, deputy head of the Chief Civil Aviation Department,
said the Convention was signed in 1999 in Canada’s Montreal.
The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification
of Certain Rules for International Carriage, is a treaty adopted by a
Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999. It amended important
provisions of the Warsaw Convention’s regime concerning compensation
for the victims of air disasters.
The Convention re-establishes urgently needed uniformity and
predictability of rules relating to the international carriage of
passengers, baggage and cargo.
Whilst maintaining the core provisions which have successfully served
the international air transport community for several decades (i.e.
the Warsaw regime), the new convention achieves the required
modernisation in a number of key areas.
It protects passengers by introducing a two-tier liability system and
by facilitating the swift recovery of proven damages without the need
for lengthy litigation.