ZHARANGUTIUN AGAINST NA EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Panorama.am
17:05 10/10/2007
"What a vicious thing to call extraordinary sessions!
What is the problem that we want to make the work of all the 131s
formal? After all, we have come to work and discuss. The submitted
bill has arrived with the most ungrounded and doubtful amendments
and we want to rush it without known reasons and do it in a rush.
Shall we not vote? Shall we say we are not taking part? What is
this – an invitation for boycott? We will not boycott. The method
of boycott is not our method. You do not boycott against hostility
but you mobilize forces even more," Larisa Alaverdyan, member of
"Zharangutiun" block, raised these questions from the platform during
today’s extraordinary session of the National Assembly.
By saying "law that has arrived with the most ungrounded and doubtful
amendments" Alaverdyan means the bill "On making amendments to the
law on RA budget system."
Stiopa Safaryan from the same block also named calling extraordinary
session and adopting laws in a rush "vicious." He said they have
learned from the mass media about the decision of NA chairman to
call an extraordinary session and received the package of bills late
yesterday. "Let’s adopt laws in proper procedures by organizing proper
discussions, otherwise, we put more significance on the procedure of
voting and for the sake of that we are able to conduct discussions
at any speed, non-professionally and not proper for the National
Assembly," Safaryan said.
In reply to all these questions and observations, Chairman of the
National Assembly Tigran Torosyan said: "I will ask not to be at
fault with the truth.
Everybody has received the drafts of the laws and the agenda. So,
I do not think such statements are constructive," After that, the
National Assembly proceeded with the discussion of the bills.
Note: NA extraordinary session was held in accordance with the
Constitution and at the initiative of deputies.