ARF-D’S APPEAL TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT INCOMPREHENSIBLE: HRAYR TOVMASYAN

Tert.am

"The National Assembly’s powers are defined by Article 62 of the RA
Constitution. It means that the National Assembly cannot be given any
other powers by any other acts," lawyer Hrayr Tovmasyan told Tert.am,
commenting on a proposal by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun, ARF-D) to give the National Assembly the right to
ratify international treaties with reservations.

With 4 "no" votes by the Republican Party of Armenia and the Prosperous
Armenia Party and an abstain vote by an independent deputy, the
ARF-D move had earlier been turned down at the NA Standing Committee
on Foreign Relations. Now the ARF-D intends to appeal to the RA
Constitutional Court with an aim to discuss whether this disputable
provision is constitutional or not.

Tovmasyan, upon Tert.am’s request to comment on ARF-D’s initiative,
said that he was not familiar with the above-mentioned proposal,
adding that, since there was no such law or ruling had been made,
it’s incomprehensible the constitutionality of which act should the
Constitutional Court resolve.

He also said that according to Article 85 of the RA Constitution,
it is the government, along with the president, who develops and
implements the country’s foreign policy.