Armenia's Deputy Minister of Justice Karen Karapetyan received the delegations led by the director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) democracy management office, Matthew Leid, and the  chief of party for Democracy International in Armenia, James Wasserstrom, informs the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

The parties discussed Democracy International’s new five-year Protection, Inclusion, and Empowerment activity funded by USAID, and which aims to support disadvantaged and marginalized populations in Armenia through needed legal-regulatory framework changes, improved services, and intensified cooperation between the government, civil society organizations, and the private sector to address the needs of vulnerable populations.

The avenues for collaboration with the Ministry of Justice of Armenia in the aforesaid activity within the framework of legal reforms in human rights, equality, and a number of other related domains were also discussed.

At the end of the meeting, the parties highlighted some other matters of common interest, and expressed readiness to strengthen further cooperation.