PARLIAMENT ELECTS ALL 9 INTERIM COMMITTEE HEADS
Panorama.am
19:01 07/06/2007
The Armenian parliament elected 9 interim committee chairmen in a
secret ballot shortly. The number of committee went up by 3 in the
new parliament. Ara Babloyan, Armenian Republican Party (HHK) member,
was elected as the chairman of health, social security and nature
protection committee. Babloyan was formerly the head of Arabkir
Medical Center.
Davit Harutunyan, ex-justice minister and HHK member, will chair
the interim committee of state legal issues. Hranush Hakobyan,
with no party affiliation but elected on proportional list of HHK,
was re-elected as the chair of the committee of education, science,
youth and sports affairs. Gagik Minasyan, HHK, was re-elected as the
chair of financial and budgeting interim committee. Vardan Aivazyan,
ex-minister of nature protection, was re-elected as the chairman of
newly established interim committee of economic affairs.
All other committees were divided between the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (Dashnaksutiun) and Prosperous Armenia (BHK).
Dashnaksutiun will be in charge of the interim committees on foreign
affairs (Armen Rustamyan, chair) and interim committee on defense,
internal affairs and national security issues (Arthur Aghabekyan,
ex-deputy defense minister, chair).
Two newly established interim committees were trusted to BHK, interim
committee on human rights and public affairs (Arevik Petrosyan,
chair) and interim committee on European integration (Avet Adonts,
chair). Both were nominated without an alternative opponent.