Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the two-day international high-level conference dedicated to the Day of the Prosecutor’s Office Employee on the topic “Independence and Impartiality of Prosecutors in the Context of Initiating Public Criminal Prosecution of Officials Committing Crimes: Corruption and Money Laundering”.

The event was also attended by Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, the leadership of the executive and judicial branches of the Republic of Armenia, representatives of prosecutors’ offices of 7 European countries and two international prosecutorial institutions, the Council of Europe, prosecutors, as well as heads of diplomatic missions accredited in the Republic of Armenia.

In his speech, the Prime Minister congratulated the employees of the Prosecutor's Office on the occasion of the Day of the Prosecutor's Office Employee and thanked them for their important work. According to the Prime Minister, the law enforcement system plays a very significant role in implementing the functions necessary for the happiness of citizens: peace and/or security, including internal and external, justice, freedom and prosperity. In this context, Nikol Pashinyan noted that corruption is one of the main problems that creates problems in any reality in several directions. “The government’s policy is to demonstrate zero tolerance towards corruption and corrupt practices, and we continue to be consistent on that path,” the Prime Minister said, emphasizing that it is important not only to identify and eliminate the consequences of corruption, but also to objectively identify the existing causes.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that corruption is mainly a phenomenon that tempts people with power and leverage, and in the fight against it, he emphasized the importance of improving and ensuring proper working conditions for officials.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that corruption is mainly a phenomenon that tempts people with power and leverage, and in the fight against it, he emphasized the importance of improving and ensuring proper working conditions for officials. The Prime Minister emphasized that the Government, the political majority, have been able to address this issue as much as possible, in particular, very significant salary increases in the judicial system by Armenian standards have been implemented. “From the beginning our perception has been, and I have said that in Armenia, we are first and foremost raising the salaries of prosecutors, investigators, and judges for the benefit of the citizens, so as to make justice and fairness more accessible to them. I want to believe that justice and fairness are becoming more accessible in the Republic of Armenia, although we must also note that this is not a simple process,” the Prime Minister said, adding that it is an ongoing process and it is important to have the political will to address existing problems and formulate answers to questions in political and legal terms.

According to the Prime Minister, reforms in Armenia are being implemented with the expectation that the level of satisfaction of the public and citizens with justice and fairness will gradually increase. Summing up his speech, Nikol Pashinyan once again congratulated and thanked all employees of the Prosecutor's Office for their work: "I am convinced and hope that they set the task for themselves of providing the public with a higher quality service every day, and that service is a high service, the name of that service is justice and fairness. And I am also convinced that the Prosecutor General leads the Prosecutor's Office with that logic and ideology."