GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WORK PRODUCTIVELY FOR LAST THREE
MONTHS, PRIME MINISTER BELIEVES
YEREVAN, MAY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly’s spring
session finished on May 26. According to RA Prime Minister Andranik
Margarian’s estimation, the Parliament and the Government have worked
productively during the last 3 months. In the interview to
journalists, among the laws adopted by the Parliament during the
session, Andranik Margarian attached special importance to
Constitution’s amendments package adopted in the first reading,
Electoral Code’s amendments package adopted in the second reading and
completely which are directly connected with the fulfillment of
obligations taken in front of the Council of Europe. A number of
important drafts concerning the economy sphere are adopted. Besides,
the Government sent to the National Assembly the package concerning
the mortgage market which is already being discussed at the
Parliament’s Standing Committees. In the Prime Minister’s opinion,
during the spring sitting, both the Government and MPs will adapt to
the new working style, the four-days sittings’ regime, and will
attempt to solve gathered issues without convening special
sessions. But, according to him, one NA special session will probably
be convened in June connected with the fulfillment of obligations
taken in front of the Council of Europe. These are mainly the second
or third draft readings. Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s
question, the RA Prime Minister mentioned that though the cooperation
is estimated as positive his only reservation concerns the point that
in the sense of the technical fulfillment, the cooperation could be
“even better, not like this .” As an example, the Prime Minister
mentioned the discussion of the 2004 state budget order at the May 26
sitting, “when 15 ministers and only 13-14 MPs were sitting in the
hall what speaks of a technical but not political attitude.” According
to the Prime Minister, one can also work more operatively as, often,
while discussing drafts, MPs speaks about minor events more that it is
necessary: “That is, “easy” drafts are spoken around more that “hard”
ones.”