BILL ON RECOGNIZING NKR NOT INCLUDED IN AGENDA OF RA NA REGULAR PLENARY SITTINGS

Noyan Tapan
April 28, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Assembly regular plenary
sittings started on April 28. In difference to usual four-day sittings,
they will last three days as May 1, according to the official calendar,
is a day off.

NA Speaker Tigran Torosian informed journalists that the the actions
plan of the newly formed government is discussed at the government
sitting the same day and as soon as they receive it, the program will
be included in the agenda and will be discussed by the special order
during current sittings.

The parliament refused to additionally include the bill authored
by Zharangutiun faction head Raffi Hovannisian On Recognizing the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic into the sitting agenda. 15 deputies
were for, 62 against, and 7 abstained. According to T. Torosian,
parliament’s attitude on including the issue in the agenda has nothing
in common with NA’s attitude to the recognition of NKR. "Nagorno
Karabakh’s recognition is our most inportant task," the NA Speaker
said. Armen Rustamian, the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee
for Foreign Relations, who did not approve issue’s inclusion in the
agenda, in his turn, said that no one in Armenia can be against NKR
recognition. However, according to him, the issue was to be included
in the NA agenda with a political consent. He said that the Committee
has proposed postponing the issue until discussion by a tripartite,
RA Foreign Ministry, NA, NKR, format.

After agenda’s approval the parliament continued discussion of the RA
NA’s statement on Nagorno Karabakh conflict’s settlement interrupted
at the previous four-day sittings.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress