ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001795

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN AND DRL/IL LAUREN HOLT
DOL/ILAB FOR TINA MCCARTER

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO
SUBJECT: ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR
CONVENTIONS

REF: STATE 143552 YEREVAN 1550


1. Per reftels, Post provides the following update regarding
exploitive child labor:

-- On October 3, the Armenian National Assembly ratified
International Labor Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention

138. Armenpress News Agency quoted Labor and Social Affairs
Minister Aghvan Vardanyan, who described the National
Assembly's vote to ratify the convention as a step "to
prevent any instances of exploitation of children."


2. In the same session, the Armenian National Assembly
ratified ILO Conventions 14, 26, 97, 118, 132 and 143.
EVANS