On 9 April 2021 the official launching event of the Council of Europe project “Support for the execution by Armenia of judgement in respect of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights” took place online, which was followed by the first steering committee meeting of the project. The project launching event was attended by the representatives of the Council of Europe Secretariat and the Yerevan office, and the key beneficiary institutions of the project, namely the Office of the Representative of Armenia before the European Count of Human Rights, the Ministry of Justice of Armenia and the Court of Cassation of Armenia.

The launching event was opened by Mr Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights of the Council of Europe. Mr Poirel welcomed the Project and highlighted its importance as the first initiative to support Armenia in the process of the execution of judgments of the ECtHR related to Article 6 of the Convention.

Key speakers were Mr Pavlo Pushkar, Head of Division in the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of Council of Europe, Mr Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Representative of Armenia before the European Court of Human Rights, Ms Lilit Tadevosyan, President of the Court of Cassation of Armenia, Mr Armen Hovhannisyan, Deputy Minister of Justice of Armenia.

The launching event was followed by the first meeting of the project steering committee, during which the steering committee members discussed the planned activities of the project․

The events were organised by the project “Support for the execution by Armenia of judgments in respect of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, which is implemented by the Council of Europe and funded by the Human Rights Trust Fund and the Council of Europe Action Plan for Armenia 2019-2022.