Armenian Minister of Justice Karen Andreasyan today, during a meeting in Yerevan with representatives of the Yerevan office of the Council of Europe, raised the issue of the return of Armenian POWs.

Andreasyan stressed the importance of the implementation of the ECHR judgments against Azerbaijan, which refers to the people captured as a result of the 44-day war and still being held in Azerbaijan.

Andreasyan then presented the reform agenda of the Ministry of Justice. Reference was made to the work carried out in the field of constitutional reforms, such as e-justice, compulsory execution of judicial acts, and the Probation Service.

The head of the CoE Yerevan Office Martina Schmidt thanked Karen Andreasyan for the cooperation. Schmidt stressed that the CoE-Armenia Action Plan is coming to an end in 2022, and used the drafting of the 2023-2026 program, within the framework of which actions will be initiated, which will be aimed at the reforms in the field of justice.