GOAM MOVING FORWARD ON REMAINING CT CONVENTIONS

UNCLAS YEREVAN 002776 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, S/CT, IO E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PTER ASEC PREL AM SUBJECT: GOAM MOVING FORWARD ON REMAINING CT CONVENTIONS REF: STATE 269653 ¶1. (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ¶2. (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court has ruled that the remaining three Counterterrorism Conventions to which Armenia has not yet acceded are constitutional, and the National Assembly is due to ratify them in Spring 2005, according to MFA Americas Desk Chief Lilit Tutkhalian. The GOAM, in response to earlier discussions on the same topic, has pushed the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf through the ratification process, and expects the National Assembly to consider the conventions before the end of the Spring session in 2005. EVANS