Taking into account the difficulties of participation of regional representatives in the meetings organized in Yerevan, on February 24, the Freedom of Information Center of Armenia organized an online meeting with the Goris Press club, allowing the representatives of remote regions to receive answers to their pressing questions related to the topic.

More than 4 dozen business representatives from Syunik and other regions of RA participated in the meeting. As in the previous meeting, FOICA researcher Harutyun Tsatryan presented the results of the research project “The impact of BO declaration on the private sector”. Based on the example of the media business, the authors of the research, Shushan Doydoyan, and Harutyun Tsatryan, mapped the main problems in the business sector in dealing with the BO declaration process and analyzed the attitude of legal entities regarding BO transparency and its main reasons.

The main speaker of the part of the meeting was Hripsime Iskandaryan, the representative of the Agency of the State Register of Legal Entities of the RA Ministry of Justice. Ms. Iskandaryan presented the announcement in detail and then answered the participants’ questions.

The discussion was organized within the framework of the project “Corruption Undermines the Development of Beneficiary Transparency” implemented by FOICA.

The video of the meeting is here.