On May 26 Vice Speaker of the National Assembly Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan met with a group of graduate women of the stream Higher Political Courses of Women's Leadership School, which was founded by Women’s Asscociation with university education. They are members of a number of Armenian associations, NGOs and parties.

NA Vice Speaker Mrs. Arevik Petrosyan congratulated the graduates on the occasion of completion of education and conveyed the congratulations and warm wishes of the Speaker of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan.

Addressing the graduates he highlighted every step being undertaken for the formation civil society, considering favourable in that respect the role of the Women's Leadership School, which has been functioning for nine years. He expressed confidence that participating in the courses they aimed at obtaining necessary knowledge, experience, skills for literate and effective participation in political processes.

Mrs. Petrosyan underlined that within the framework of the courses they have opportunity to establish contacts with each other, also promoting with it the cooperation of different public-political formats, mutual understanding, tolerance, which are one of the necessary elements of ensuring political high culture. Touching upon the problem of gender equality, the NA Vice Speaker noted that she shares the European approaches on gender equality, according to which this equality is an important index and precondition of full honouring of human rights, democracy, poverty reduction and provision of social justice and progress of legal state. Mrs. Petrosyan noted that in the parliament enough attention is paid to the problems of gender equality: it is designed to discuss The Concept of Gender Equality and RA draft law on Provision of Women’s men’s equal rights and equal opportunities. Mrs. Petrosyan considered expedient the continuity of the meetings and cooperation over different issues.

Mrs. Petrosyan answered the graduates’ questions, at the request of the founder of the Women's Leadership School Mrs. Jemma Hasratyan, she handed the graduate certificates, expressing hope that the knowledge received while educating will be used for the sake of Motherland.