EXTRAORDINARY SESSION TO DECIDE THE STAFF
S. HARUTYUNYAN
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on June 13, 2008
Armenia
The discussion on setting up a temporary committee for the
investigation of March 1-2 developments was over in the Parliament
yesterday.
The voting was postponed although. Speaker of the National Assembly
Tigran Torosyan said, the MPs will `ratify’ the bill during the
extraordinary session on Monday. Before that the authors of the bill
Victor Dallakyan and coalition representatives will discuss the
proposals and remarks and will clarify the final outline of the
decision.
`Hayots Ashkharh’ tried to clarify whether or not this time opposition
will really have its weighty word in the `starting’ version of the
bill. Below we introduce Victor Dallakyan’s clarifications.
There have been lots of proposals from `Heritage’ faction, `Orinats
Yerkir’ and `Bargavach Hayastan’. It’s worth mentioning that even the
co-authors of the program came out with proposals. I advised to
organize the voting during the extraordinary session. By the way it is
also a manifestation of free will, because we could have come to a
decision today.
But in my view it will be right if we convene serious discussions these
days and express our attitudes towards the proposals. From the begging
I must say that the proposals made by the opposition regarding the
ratio of the factions represented in the committee will be refused. It
is out of question and we have substantiated why we don’t agree to it.
The conversation is about increasing the seats of `Heritage’ faction in
the committee and the representation of the opposition and the
authorities by the ratio 50-50. This approach is unacceptable for the
co-authors and I have already mentioned in my speech that the trust of
the society towards the committee has nothing to do with the number;
there should be other dominant factors.
As regards the productiveness of the committee there were lots of
interesting proposals made by `Heritage’ faction and our approaches in
this respect is constructive. These days, we, the co-authors of the
bill and all the interested MPs will discuss these proposals.’
`Will you be the `single’ independent candidate in the status of the
11th member of the temporary committee?’
`No I have already mentioned that I don’t have any intentions to be the
Chairman of the committee. I don’t have any personal interest towards
this bill.’
`How would you evaluate the refusal of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters
to participate in this `imitation process?’
`It is their right. We gave an opportunity; we did our best in the
framework of the regulation to involve all the extra-parliamentary
forces in our activity, firstly Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters.
As you know according to article 2, point 3 of the regulation only the
representatives of legislative bodies usually participate in the
formation of the temporary committees. Which means only MPs can become
members of the temporary committee. That is why we have previewed the
right for consultative votes for our extra-parliamentary forces. This
means they enjoy the same rights with the members of the committee,
except voting. If the extra-parliamentary forces refuse, then it is
their right.
But in my view cooperation would have been very helpful and productive
for the activity of the committee.’