Minister of Justice of Armenia Rustam Badasyan today received the delegation led by Minister of Justice of Lithuania Elvinas Jankevičius.

Rustam Badasyan expressed gratitude to his counterpart for visiting Armenia and stated that Armenia is currently in a stage of large-scale reforms that the European Union has viewed as pretentious.

The Lithuanian justice minister expressed gratitude for the cordial reception and, on behalf of her country, expressed willingness to support Armenia’s extensive reforms.

During the meeting, Minister Badasyan presented the fight against corruption, judicial-legal reforms and the reforms in the penitentiary sector and particularly touched upon the establishment of new anti-corruption bodies and their functions, the reforms of the institution of declaration, the introduction of an institution for verifying the integrity of judges, the confiscation of unlawfully acquired property and assets, the introduction of electronic justice system and more.