19/09/2009 14:13
Pan Armenian Forum of Lawyers' first day
Yerevan hosts the first Pan Armenian Forum of Lawyers on “Armenian legal thought and the challenges of 21st century” which has opened today and where for about 100 Armenian lawyers from different countries including Artsakh partake.
Armenia’s Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan opened the conference and spoke about country’s after-independence-declaration years noting that Armenia wanted to build a civil society and democratic state. And on this path world’s Armenian lawyers’ help is needed.
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and Nagorno-Karabakh Rebublic’s President Bako Saakyan have sent their greetings to participants.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan welcomed the lawyers and said the Forum was a good matter to solve in joint strivings those problems that Armenia faced.
After today’s conference the lawyers will attend Armenian Diaspora dramatist Manvel Adamyan’s staging at Theatre aft. Gabriel Sundukyan. For tomorrow’s program participants will meet with the Catholicos at Holy Echmiadzin Cathedral, and for September 21 they will go to Lake Sevan, Dilijan and Goshavank and will attend President Serzh Sargsyan’s receiving in honor of Independence Day.