Work will be shared, responsibility won’t

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| 14:25:31 | 17-09-2005 | Politics |

WORK WILL BE SHARED, RESPONSIBILITY – WON’T

`In the course of years the United Labor Party of Armenia exerted every
effort for the reformation of the draft constitutional amendments’, party
member Grigor Honjeyan noted.

The party will take part in the referendum and say `yes’ to the
constitutional amendments because the model underwent considerable changes.
However it is not going to share the responsibility in `3+1′ format. In
Honjeyan’s opinion two types of responsibility should be acknowledged.
First, when the amendments are not acceptable for the people (in this case
the authors of the draft should bear the responsibility). Second, if the
amendments are incorrectly presented and as result people show no interest
in them and boycott the referendum (in this case the agitators should assume
the responsibility).

`By the way, the coalition is lucky, since this agitation period coincided
with the process of party construction of the ULP. We will visit regions and
explain to the people the necessity of adopting the constitutional reform’,
G. Honjeyan said.

Another parliamentary force – People’s Deputy party – stated that it will
not share the responsibility with the coalition despite the fact that
chairman of the permanent commission for state issues Rafik Petrosyan took
active part in the elaboration of the draft. `We did not undertake the
responsibility. But since the matter concern the main law of the country we
cannot remain indifferent’, party member Mkrtich Minasyan said.

He informed that their positive participation in the voting proves that the
group is preparing to launch propaganda and will manage to bring the
necessity of adopting the constitutional amendments to the notion of the
citizens.