RA NA PRESIDENT – SUPPORTER OF CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACHES AND CONSENSUS
Support A1+!RA NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan received PACE Monitoring Committee speakers Eji Jaskernia and George Kolumbie.
During the meeting issues about the course of meeting the commitments taken upon by Armenian before the PACE were discussed. By the request of Mr. Jaskernia Arthur Baghdasaryan referred to the Constitutional amendments and the referendum mentioning that the National Assembly adopted the coalition draft constitution by the first hearing, where numerous offers of the Venice Committee were taken into account. He also said that before the second hearing everything will be done to correspond the draft to the demands of the time. It was also mentioned that before the second hearing in June in Yerevan the draft will be discussed with the COE experts once more.
As for the referendum date, it was mentioned that the beginning of fall is the best date, so that people can get acquainted with the draft during July-August and form their opinion about it. The adoption of the Electoral Code was also found important.
As for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict RA NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan said that Armenia has a constructive approach, accepts the necessity of compromise and is ready to continue peaceful negotiations.
