On November 25 the 31st plenary session of the IPA CIS began at Tavrichesky Palace in Saint Petersburg. Chairman of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States Mr Sergey Mironov opened the session and gave a speech.
The MPs discussed issues regarding the international cooperation in the sphere of democratic elections, the legislative settlement of providing food security and the project of a new edition of the Convention on ecological security of CIS member nations. The two chapters of the model Tax Code: “State Social Extra-Budget Fund Payments or Social Tax” and “Payments Designed For the Use of Natural Resources and Natural Environment.”
Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Mr Gagik Minasyan, who also heads the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Economy and Finance, noted in his speech that those provisions were repeatedly discussed during the sessions of the permanent commission held in Saint Petersburg and Yerevan, and proposed the elaborated letter certificates in the Code for making complete the document. This and other model laws were adopted in the session.
NA Speaker Mr Hrayr Karapetyan was awarded Cooperation medal for the contribution in strengthening the inter-parliamentary cooperation by the decision of the Council of IPA CIS.
The works of the 31st plenary session of the IPA CIS were summed up with the joint press conference of the heads of the delegations.
On November 25 the NA delegation of Armenia returned Yerevan.
