PARLIAMENT REJECTS DEBATES ON RETURN OF SOVIET-TIME BANK DEPOSITS
ArmenPress
Feb 8 2005
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS: Members of the Armenian
parliament, back from a winter recess, have turned down today a
motion by the opposition Ardarutyun alliance that calls for
parliament debates on returning the populations’ depreciated
Soviet-time bank accounts.
The bill was authored by Viktor Dalakian, the secretary of the
alliance and suggested that the motion be put on the agenda of the
regular three-day session. Talking to reporters, Dalakian said his
bill asks the government to announce publicly that it will pay
compensations and will draft special mechanisms for it.
But the Republican Party of prime minister Margarian and Orinats
Yerkir of parliament chairman Baghdasarian argued in favor of
postponing the issue to give time to a special task force, set up by
the president, to investigate the problem and present its own
conclusion.