Republican Party of Armenia

On May 15 in the National Assembly a discussion with the cooperation of the UN Population Fund by the USAID Support Program to the Armenian National Assembly. The women representing the NA different factions took part in the meeting and discussed the demographic challenges existing in Armenia.

The interlocutors talked about the important issues, as the aging of population, the disproprtion of the newly born children's genders, the high level of the artificial interruptions of pregnancy and gender (family) violence.

The women deputies highlighted the emergency of solving the presented issues at legislative and public level. The deputies discussed their role in the Committees and how they can support the Group in elaborating a joint action plan.

Thanking the participants of the event and expecting continuity of further debtaes and meetings, the NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan noted: “The sterility, the disproportion of genders and the aging are the problems, which the women deputies should jointly touch upon irrespective of their affiliation.''