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YEREVAN. - President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on Tuesday convened a consultation to discuss the development prospects for the Armenian state service system.

The consultation was attended by Vice Prime Minister of Armenia, Minister of International Economic Integration and Reforms, Vache Gabrielyan, Minister - Chief of Armenian Government Staff Davit Harutyunyan, Justice Minister Arpine Hovhannisyan, Chairman of Armenian Civil Service Council Manvel Badalyan, President of Ethics Commission of High-Ranking Officials Siranuysh Sahakyan and other relevant officials of the President's administration.

At the outset of the discussion, the President referred to the legal process of state service formation launched with the adoption of the Law on ''Civil Service,'' stressing that it later served as a basis for adopting about two dozens of laws on other services, whose application allowed to achieve significant success in establishing separate types of state services.  

According to the President, as an independent agency, the Civil Service Council of Armenia has played a significant role in ensuring the regular and efficient activity of a number of authorities during these years. In his words, at the initial stage of forming this system, the choice of the centralized model was justified but the political developments in line with the modern demands require new approaches, this raising a need for developing new solutions. ''The improvement of the state service system has always been in the center of our attention and it continues to remain one of the priority issues of the state. I think it is high time we tried to develop this system as well through applying a new model,'' Sargsyan stressed.

Vice Prime Minister of Armenia, Minister of International Economic Integration and Reforms, Vache Gabrielyan presented the need for reforms in the state service system, the results of research made in that direction, the pros and cons of the models developed on their basis, as well as the most efficient model according to the Government. In Gabrielyan's words, the latter supposes a change in the status of the Civil Service Council, which will apparently lead to reconsidering the volume of the Council's powers.

In the framework of the consultation, Justice Minister Arpine Hovhannisyan reported on the currently drawn out package of legislative changes, which should set up a common anti-corruption body. According to Hovhannisyan, the latter will be formed on the basis of the Ethics Commission of High-Ranking Officials, which will lead to expanding the Committee's authorities.

As a result of the discussion, the President presented his position on the aforementioned issues and gave relevant instructions. Noting that the proposed preferable model has certain privileges, the President said that it can be considered as a basis for the further work. However, according to him, to organize this process more efficiently and discuss all the details of the issue more thoroughly it is necessary to form a working group, involving in it all the institutions concerned and hearing their position and observations.

At the same time, Sargsyan attached importance to considering the peculiarities of the new constitutional regulations when discussing such large-scale reforms, as well as the objectives and issues proceeding from them. He also considered it necessary to ensure the precise separation of functions of the Government and independent authorities, as well as possibilities of their efficient cooperation.   

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