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04YEREVAN2546
2004-11-26 13:02:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:
ARMENIAN HIGH COURT APPROVES OPTIONAL
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 002546
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL, IO/UN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KOCI AM
SUBJECT: ARMENIAN HIGH COURT APPROVES OPTIONAL
PROTOCOL ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
(SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
On November 23, the Armenian Constitutional Court
approved the GOAM's signing of the "Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
sale of children, child prostitution, and child
pornography." The treaty now moves to the National
Assembly for final ratification. According to local
UNICEF officer Naira Avetisyan, the National Assembly
hopes to ratify this and the Optional Protocol on the
involvement of children in armed conflicts by year's
end. Avetesyan stated that the National Assembly would
not need to change Armenian law in order to comply with
either protocol. She explained that "The Law on Child
Rights," passed in 1996, closely mirrors the
"Convention on the Rights of the Child" because the
Soviet Union was a signatory to the convention and the
Armenian law was modeled on Soviet law.
EVANS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL, IO/UN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KOCI AM
SUBJECT: ARMENIAN HIGH COURT APPROVES OPTIONAL
PROTOCOL ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
(SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
On November 23, the Armenian Constitutional Court
approved the GOAM's signing of the "Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
sale of children, child prostitution, and child
pornography." The treaty now moves to the National
Assembly for final ratification. According to local
UNICEF officer Naira Avetisyan, the National Assembly
hopes to ratify this and the Optional Protocol on the
involvement of children in armed conflicts by year's
end. Avetesyan stated that the National Assembly would
not need to change Armenian law in order to comply with
either protocol. She explained that "The Law on Child
Rights," passed in 1996, closely mirrors the
"Convention on the Rights of the Child" because the
Soviet Union was a signatory to the convention and the
Armenian law was modeled on Soviet law.
EVANS