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| 15:27:58 | 23-06-2005 | Politics | PACE SUMMER SESSION |

PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE REJECTED TURKEY’S PROPOSAL

Today at 11.30 Yerevan time the PACE Monitoring Committee sat to discuss
three proposals, submitted by the Assembly delegations on the constitutional
reform process in Armenia.

The first proposal was advanced by the Turkish delegates. `The Constitution
should be brought to the correspondence with international agreements, fix
the state borders with all the neighbors thus promoting friendly relations
in the region’, they said. Shavarsh Kocharyan called the proposal absurd.
Majority of the Monitoring Committee agreed with him and rejected the above
mentioned proposal. During today’s sitting the Turkish delegation is going
to press for adoption of the proposal.

Today to important proposals on amendments submitted by Dutch
parliamentarian Jurgens on behalf of the Committee on Legal Issues were
adopted. The first amendment referred to the change of sub-point 8 of point
13 of the resolution on constitutional reform in Armenia. `The Parliamentary
Assembly calls upon the Armenian leadership and the parliamentary majority
to hold the referendum no later than November, 2005 and secure the reform
effectiveness within reasonable terms and as soon as possible.’

According to the second amendment, in case the referendum is failed PACE
will make appropriate conclusions during the January session in 2006.