YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, ARMENPRESS: Armenian justice minister David Harutunian said today that Jehovah’s Witnesses organization was officially registered after it brought its statutes in line with law requirements.
In response to fears that after registration the organization, viewed by many Armenians with suspicion, will continue activities running counter to law, the minister said registration is the first stage and it does not give it right to breach laws. “If the organization violates laws later all measures stipulated by legislation will be applied against it,” he said. The minister said the organization had been denied registration as its statutes and `forms of preaching’ were not in conformity with Armenia’s law on religious organizations.
The organization registration certificate was issued by the state registry of legal entities on 8 October and was signed by the deputy justice minister Tigran Mukuchian. The registration covers the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ activity across the whole of the country. Registering the Jehovah’s Witnesses was a key demand of the Council of Europe.
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