SPEAKER ARTHUR BAGHDASARYAN RESIGNED

Lragir.am
22 May 06

The meeting of the National Assembly on May 22 opened with the
resignation of Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan. Members of the Orinats
Yerkir Party Mher Shahgeldyan (Chair of the Committee for Defense,
Internal Affairs and National Security) and Gagik Mkeyan (Chair of
the Health, Social and Environmental Committee) resigned too.

In his last speech as the speaker of the National Assembly Arthur
Baghdasaryan reasserted what he had stated during his pledge to
resign. There is political disagreement and controversies on three
key matters: foreign policies, promotion of democracy, reforms.

Only within the past year the mass media and politicians have predicted
the collapse of the coalition or secession of the Orinats Yerkir Party
for 21 times, recalled Arthur Baghdasaryan. We are following the path
to building Armenia we dream of, said Arthur Baghdasaryan. Becoming
opposition, the Orinats Yerkir Party will fundamentally criticize
every wrong step, independent of who will take it, the president,
the government, one political force or another. “We cannot endorse and
support something which is beyond limits, logic. The political future
of Armenia must be democracy and freedom, not an atmosphere of fear,”
said Arthur Baghdasaryan, adding that any initiative of individuals
or political forces that will favor the nation will be supported by
Orinats Yerkir.