AT NA FOUR-DAY SITTINGS

National Assembly, Armenia
March 21 2006

On March 20 NA regular four-day sittings commenced with the endorsement
of the agenda. Only the Ardarutiun/Justice faction-submitted draft on
setting up NA Ad-hoc Committee on Offences committed at the referendum
on Constitutional amendments held in RA on November 27, 2005, which
was to be put on the session agenda, was not endorsed. The MPs passed
the drafts debated at the previous four-day sittings, too. Artur
Baghdasaryan, NA President, informed that the debate of the draft on
Making Amendment to RA Law on Energy is adjourned by the government’s
consent to make up the disagreements on the suggested amendment and
come to an agreement.

The MPs debated the RA government-submitted drafts on Making Amendments
to RA Land Code and Making Amendment to RA Law on the Repressed.

Davit Lokyan, Minister of Agriculture, presented the draft on Making
Amendments and Addenda to RA Law on State Duty.

Manvel Badalyan, Chairman of the Civil Service Council, presented
the draft on Making Amendments and Addenda to RA Law on Civil Service.

The MPs also debated the draft on Precious Metals and the related
amendments suggested to other laws, the drafts on Making Amendments
and Addenda to RA Law on Pawnshops and Pawnshop Activity, on Making
Amendment and Addendum to RA Law on Gambling and Casinos, on Making
Amendments and Addenda to RA Law on Acts on Civil State, on Making
Addendum to RA Law on Advertisement and Conventions on Cybercrimes
and International Protection of Plants, Development Credit Agreement
Number 4144 (Second Poverty Reduction Support Credit) between Republic
of Armenia and International Development Association.

According to the main speaker Armen Gevorgyan, Deputy Minister
of Trade and Economic Development of the Republic of Armenia, the
draft on Copyright and Co-rights solves the problem of intellectual
property rights’ protection and regulates the rights of the authors
and performers of the works in the sphere of literature, science and
art, of sound-recorder and filmmakers, of broadcasting organizations,
publishers and database makers with regard to their work. The draft
regulates the management of property rights on collective bases, too.

The debate of the draft will be continued at the March 21 sitting.

March 21 2006

Karabakh “will increase investments in military sphere”

In capital of Nagorno Karabakh – the city of Stepanakert two
12-apartment two-storied houses are put into operation for officers
of NKR Defense Army.

As a REGNUM correspondent in Stepanakert reports, presenting officers
with vouchers for apartments, President of NKR Arkady Gukasyan
mentioned that the republican authorities and the military command
should together solve everyday social problems of servicemen.

According to him, the state will increase investments into the
military sphere.

The state gave 750 million drams for construction of serviceman
housing in 2005. The sum totaled 1,200 million drams in 2006.