ARF STOPS ITS REPRESENTATIVE’S ACTIVITY AT INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMISSION WORKING OUT DRAFT "ON RA ANTHEM"
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Aug 29 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. "The principal
defined by the new constitutional amendments on fixing the RA State
Anthem by the law is baselessly interpreted by some circles as a
constitutional demand to change the functioning anthem." It is said in
the August 28 statement made public by the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Supreme
Body of Armenia. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the Press Service of
the ARF Armenia Supreme Body, authors of the statement mention that the
interdepartmental commission implementing the function of working out
the draft law "On RA Anthem" "for incomprehensible reasons, considered
its task to unequivocally reject the functioning "Mer Hayrenik"
("Our Fatherland") anthem and changing it with a new anthem." "The
unbridled anti-propaganda of "Mer Hayrenik" was especially obvious. A
country’s anthem is born and established during a time, only in the
case if the logic of historic development makes it an indivisible part
of the people’s fate and biography," is said in the statement. The
ARF Armenia Supreme Body, considering inadmissible creation of a
incoherent atmosphere about one of the RA most important symbols,
the anthem, the line of actions of the intergovernmental commission
and moods arisen by it, states about stopping its representative’s
activity at the commission and presenting a legislative initiative at
the National Assembly on re-affirming "Mer Hayrenik" as the RA anthem.