NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTED DRAFT CONSTITUTION ON FIRST READING
Azat Artsakh, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh
Oct 17 2006
On October 6 the National Assembly of NKR discussed the draft
Constitution. But before discussing the draft, some replacements were
made in the standing committees. Arayik Harutiunyan, the chair of the
finance and budget committee was replaced by Benik Bakhshiyan. Benik
Bakhshiyan, the chair of the committee on industries and industrial
infrastructures was replaced by Gagik Petrosyan, Azat Hayrenik. The
post of Gagik Petrosyan, who used to be the chair of the committee
of external relations, is vacant. The chair of the Task Force on
Constitution Armen Zalinian said all the proposals which were agreed
on during the previous debates were included in the draft. He said the
draft was revised and edited and proposed that the parliament adopt it
on the first reading. He also thanked the members of parliament and
parliament factions for effective efforts and close cooperation. The
draft was put to vote and was adopted almost unanimously; only one
members of parliament abstained.