The first meeting of the Interagency Commission on Combating Gender Based Violence in Armenia was held in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on 12 May, 2010. The session was chaired by Mr. Filaret Berikyan, the Deputy head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Included in the commission were representatives from state bodies, international organizations and civil society institutes. The commission decided to create two working groups: a working group for organizational issues, which will elaborate on the Statute of the Commission and a working group on projects, which will work to elaborate on the National Program of 2011-2012 for eliminating gender based violence in Armenia.