Armenia attaches significance to OSCE role in ensuring stability and security in the region, RA President Serzh Sargsyan said during the meeting with Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Serzh Sargsyan noted that OSCE plays major role in further democracy-building, establishment of rule of law, improvement of elections and protection of democratic freedom in Armenia, RA Presidential press service informed NEWS.am.

Mijatovic commended the Armenian authorities on their steps to decriminalize defamation. OSCE representative considers transformation from an analogue to a digital broadcasting system an important move. She expressed readiness to provide expert assistance to amendments to Law on TV and Radio Broadcasting.

In the course of Tuesday session RA National Assembly MPs considered amendments to Law on TV and Radio Broadcasting, stipulating transformation to a digital broadcasting by 2013.

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