Armenia  to become a party to the Oviedo Convention

ArmInfo.  Armenia intends to become a party to the Oviedo Convention. At April 14 sitting, the Committee on Human Rights and Public Affairs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia issued a positive conclusion on the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the  Human Being in the Application of Biology and Medicine (Oviedo  Convention) submitted for ratification.

According to Lena Nanushyan, First Deputy Minister of Health of   Armenia, the Convention was opened for signature on April 4, 1997 and  entered into force on December 1, 1999. The Republic of Armenia  signed it on May 16, 2024. The purpose and subject of the Convention  is to protect human dignity in the application of biology and  medicine without any discrimination, guaranteeing personal  inviolability and other rights and fundamental freedoms of every  person. This is the only Convention in  health care dedicated to  human rights. According to the Deputy Minister, the contractual  nature of the document obliges the states that have ratified it to  adopt legislation or bring their current domestic legislation into  line with the fundamental principles of the Convention. The  provisions of the Convention are of a framework nature and define the  main guiding principles for the protection of human dignity, rights  and freedoms in the field of biomedicine. These principles serve as  the basis for the  international legal regulation of the most  sensitive and vulnerable relationships related to human dignity,  rights and freedoms in the field of biomedicine.