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    Emil Lazarian
  • 1 year ago
    • Categories: 2023

Lawyer says Armenia’s CEC unlikely to reject civic initiative’s bill

Panorama
Armenia – June 12 2023

The HayaKve initiative has asked the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia (CEC) to give a green light to a bill on Artsakh and the Armenian Genocide.

Under the 2018 referendum law, a citizens' initiative may submit a draft law to the CEC, get its approval and introduce it in the parliament after collecting 50,000 signatures.

The HayaKve initiative handed over a package of relevant documents to the Electoral Commission on Monday.

The bill seeks to make the recognition of Artsakh as a part of any other country and the renunciation of the Armenian Genocide recognition crimes against the constitutional order, lawyer Aram Orbelyan told reporters outside the CEC headquarters in Yerevan.

The CEC can reject the application only if it finds any violations after studying the documents, he said.

"A preliminary study of the documents has been carried out today, so far no obvious violations have been detected, but a detailed study is to be conducted. I don’t think the CEC is likely to reject it. The problem is to confirm it and make a formal decision,” Orbelyan added.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS