HEARINGS DEDICATED TO DUAL CITIZENSHIP PROBLEMS HELD AT PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Representatives of
parliamentary and extraparliamentary forces, government, analytical
centers, institutions of higher education, diplomatic corps and
international organizations took part in the parliamentary hearings
on the subject "Problems of Dual Citizenship: International Law and
Experience" organized on June 23 by RA National Assembly Standing
Committee on Foreign Relations. The participants of the hearings
were given the conception of the bill "On Giving a Status of Dual
Citizenship to Foreign Armenians in the Republic of Armenia." As Armen
Rustamian, Committee Chairman, member of ARFD faction, mentioned,
this is still the working variant of the draft that can be changed
as a result of these hearings.
According to him, after summing up the results of the hearings, the
Committee will come up with a conclusion. At the end of the hearings
Rustamian said that there was a wrong understanding and a subjective
perception about the dual citizenship institution in the society and
as a result of the hearings they succeeded in moving the issue to
the subject professional field.