The Armenian government, with reservation, approved the Council of  Europe Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Violence against  Women and Domestic Violence

ArmInfo. The Armenian government approved the Council of Europe Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence during its 

December 28 meeting.

As the Minister of Justice of Armenia David Harutyunyan stated, the 

Council of Europe Convention entered into force in 2014, it was 

signed by all member countries of the Council of Europe, with the 

exception of two states. Not wishing to elaborate on the details of 

the document, the minister recalled that some time ago a project on 

prevention of family violence, protection of persons subjected to 

domestic violence was widely discussed in Armenia.

 "Basically, the provisions of this law are taken from this 

convention," he said.  The head of the Ministry of Justice noted that 

in connection with a number of provisions of the European convention 

Armenia offers to make reservations - a number of provisions will not 

be applied to the republic. "This is due to the peculiarities of the 

country's legal system," David Harutyunyan said.

It should be reminded that earlier the Armenian parliament approved 

the law "On the prevention of family violence and protection of 

persons subjected to family violence and reconciliation in the 

family. "