THE ARMENIAN COLOR OF REVOLUTIONS – CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS

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| 19:04:19 | 28-09-2005 | Politics |

According to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, the adoption of
the draft Constitution will have the effect of a revolution. “Our
social-political life has the possibility to be subverted in case
of voting for the draft Constitution”, said member of the ARF,
chief editor of the weekly “Yerkir” Spartak Seyranyan today during
the seminar “The RA Amended Draft Constitution on the Eve of the
Referendum” in the “Tekeyan” cultural center.

The representative of ARF Armen Roustamyan made it clear for those
who say “revolution” and understand “change of authorities” that “the
revolution is not an end in itself”. Pointing at the post-revolution
developments in Georgia and Ukraine, Mr. Roustamyan said, “We saw what
revolutions can result in. They must be ended after coming to power,
not with it”.

Referring to the Constitutional referendum Mr. Roustamyan said
that in case of saying “No” we will have serious problems with the
CoE. According to him, only the positive answer will open a door to
the processes of realization of democratic and human rights.

According to the head of the non-governmental organization “Democracy”
Vardan Pogosyan, the constitutional reforms are a step forward from the
previous one, “which had one primitive conception – to give everything
to the RA President as he is always right”. But in the amended version
the mechanisms of the relations between the President and the NA are
not processed either.

According to the head of the program “Armenia to Europe” Aram
Safaryan who had organized the seminar, this discussion is not the
last one. The next seminar will be devoted to the theme “Armenia
after the referendum”.