ACCORDING TO BILL SUBMITTED BY ARF, STATE EMBLEM OF REPUBLIC OF
ARMENIA SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECT TO CHANGES
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Assembly "ARF" faction
has put three bills into circulation, and the first one envisages that
the state emblem of the RA should not be subject to changes, the
faction member Artsvik Minasian announced at the October 16 press
conference, adding that any person attempting to distort the state
emblem should be held accountable. The second bill envisages declaring
officially August 11 and the following 5 days as holiday days
(Navasard). The third bill proposes cancelling the law’s provision, by
which the head of an institution may dismiss a person who has reached
the age of 65 (pension age) from his/her job.
Speaking about the address of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, A.
Minasian said that appealing to the people and the parliament by means
of such an address is praiseworthy. In his opinion, although the
address fell short of the society’s expectations in connection with the
inquiry into the March 1 events and the imprisoned persons, it is not
ruled out that these issues will be included in future addresses.
As regards the former NA speaker Tigran Torosian’s recently published
article, A. Minasian refrained from making comments, saying he is not
well familiar with the article.