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On December 23 on the initiative of the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport parliamentary hearings were held, where the bills On RA National Academy of Sciences and On Amending the RA law On Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activities were debated.

The NA Deputies, scientists, academicians, high-ranking responsible persons took part in the parliamentary hearings.

Opening the hearings the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Artak Davtyan noted that the sphere regulated the law, which was passed ten years ago and which comprised of two articles, that is why a need occurred to regulate the legislative gaps and turn to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

He said that the draft law On RA National Academy of Sciences had been debated in the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and it was decided to organize parliamentary hearings, which would give opportunity to hear new opinions and draft the bill.

Touching upon the programme of RA Government activity, Artak Davyan noticed that the development of science and education had also been declared one of the priorities of the programme, where directly had been stressed the reconstruction of the system and the creation of such structures, which would be able to unite the mental potential and use it for the benefit of the Armenian people.

The President of RA National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan gave a key report. According to him, that by the draft law the legal bases of RA NAS organization and activity, their guarantees, the main principles of its relations with the state bodies, scientific, scientific-technical and entities and participants of innovative activity, the development of basic and applied science as a basis of scientific-technical progress, economic, social and cultural development.

Summing up the hearings the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Artak Davtyan told those present that all the presented proposals would be debated. A joint working group would be formed for that purpose.