US embassy cable - 05YEREVAN1795

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ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONVENTIONS

Identifier: 05YEREVAN1795
Wikileaks: View 05YEREVAN1795 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Yerevan
Created: 2005-10-05 08:03:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 001795 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN AND DRL/IL LAUREN HOLT 
DOL/ILAB FOR TINA MCCARTER 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ELAB, EIND, ETRD, PHUM, SOCI, AM, USAID, GTIP, ILO 
SUBJECT: ARMENIA:  PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR 
CONVENTIONS 
 
REF: STATE 143552 YEREVAN 1550 
 
1.  Per reftels, Post provides the following update regarding 
exploitive child labor: 
 
-- On October 3, the Armenian National Assembly ratified 
International Labor Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention 
138.  Armenpress News Agency quoted Labor and Social Affairs 
Minister Aghvan Vardanyan, who described the National 
Assembly's vote to ratify the convention as a step "to 
prevent any instances of exploitation of children." 
 
2.  In the same session, the Armenian National Assembly 
ratified ILO Conventions 14, 26, 97, 118, 132 and 143. 
EVANS 

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