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| 12:53:15 | 16-04-2005 | Politics |
TODAY’S SECURITY COUNCIL – MERE FORMALITY
Vazgen Manukyan, Paruyr Hayrikyan and Ashot Manucharyan once stated that as
a matter of fact the National Security Council is not functioning in Armenia
to date. The issues that should be considered by the council are being
settled by one or two persons.
Representatives of other opposition forces share this opinion. Head of the
National Self-Determination Union Paruyr Hayrikyan consider that the clause
on the Security Council should be fixed in the Constitution `The National
Security Council is a structure dealing with the issues of state and
national strategy, consequently neglecting it in the Constitution testifies
of the non-perfection of the latter’, Paruyr Hayrikyan says.
In his opinion, if in Armenia the division of power the activities of the
Council should have been headed by the head of the executive power. `I think
in some cases the certain limitations of publicity of the Council are
natural, since the security is bound with gander and demands cautiousness’,
the NSD leader says.
When commenting on the issue deputy chairman of the National Unity Alexan
Karapetyan said, `There are national issue, which should be discussed
somewhere’. As for the structure of the Council, he supports the new variant
– two-level Security Council. The first level should have a rather expanded
composition to discuss the problems referring to the state security in all
the fields. The second level should be more limited and will be dealing with
issues, which demand secrecy. To note, the second composition should include
representatives of the whole political field. `All the parties of the
National Assembly should be presented in it. It should be trusted as their
mission is considerable’, Karapetyan says. He affirms that the National
Security Council should determine the regularity of its activities
proceeding from the necessity. If actual issues do not demand everyday
sittings the Council members should gather at least once a month to consider
the problem in the economic, political spheres as well as the internal and
external policy. At that the process should be rather transparent, he says.
Leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukyan adheres to the
opinion that the activities should regulated by a separate law and points
out to the experience of some foreign states. `The Council should be
composed by the President, Prime Minister, Defense Minister, NA Speaker,
Minister of Home Affairs and other figures, who will jointly consider the
security issues. Thus the members of the Council will not be able to impose
some decision upon the President by voting while the President will have to
count with the opinion of the majority’, he said. He is convinced that the
activity of the must not be public. The outcomes of the activities can be
published only with the agreement of the council members. Vazgen Manukyan is
should be headed by the President and no one else.
Lena Badeyan