WILL ARF-D APPEAL TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT (FOR PARLIAMENT’S RIGHT TO RATIFY INTERNATIONAL TREATIES WITH RESERVATIONS)?
Tert.am
A National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations session
rejected a legislative package introduced by Armenian Revolutionary
Federation Party (Dashnaktsutyun, ARF-D) parliamentarians which
suggested granting the National Assembly the right to ratify
international treaties with reservations.
The package defined on which occasions such reservations can be made.
It also established the Armenian parliament’s right to annul
international treaties that are still in process.
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 was turned down.
Recently, amendments to the Law on International Treaties were
introduced by a government initiative enabling the president to
withdraw his signature from international treaties.
Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan says the ARF-D move
was unconstitutional as it has no such function defined by the RA
Constitution.
In an attempt to discuss the disputable provision of Armenia’s
Constitution, ARF-D is planning to collect 27 signatures in the
parliament and appeal to the Constitutional Court.