ARMENIA WITHOUT AN ANTHEM

Yerevan, December 6. ArmInfo. Armenia will be without a state anthem
from 7 December 2006. The final deadline on ratification of the
law on anthem expires in 24 hours. According to amendments to the
Constitution, a law on state anthem had to be adopted within a year
after the amendments were entered. Unfortunately, the law hasn’t been
ratified yet. Armenia will remain without anthem for some time till
a special governmental sitting on the issue is held.

Andranik Margaryan, Armenian Premier and Leader of Republican Party,
said that, de jure, Armenia will be without the state anthem for
some time.

The draft law on anthem was not adopted due to acute disputes between
parliamentary parties and the government.