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Today the Armenian Parliament began its sitting with the national anthem. Only the members of the Heritage faction joined in the singing. The other MPs looked at each other and smiled.


At the beginning of the sitting the Speaker of the National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan presented the agenda for the four-day session. He left after the adoption of the agenda followed by most parliamentarians. Ten out of the 50 legislative initiatives put on the agenda were discussed within an hour. Only the Heritage faction participated in the discussion.


Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan presented the draft law on ratification of agreement on establishment of Eurasian Development Bank proposed by Serzh Sargsyan.


Highlighting the agreement the Minister noted that the authorized capital stock is 1, 5 milliard dollars, 1 milliard of which belongs to the Russian Federation and the other half - to Kazakhstan.


“Entering into the agreement, Armenia will have its part of the capital stock aimed at promoting to the implementation of programs in the spheres of energy, mineral resource industry, chemistry, metallurgy as well as in agriculture”, said Armen Movsisyan. Armenia is going to make an investment of 100 thousand dollars at the expense of its reserve fund. Heritage MP Larissa Alaverdyan noted that the issue was to be raised by the Minister of Finances and not by the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.


Today the National Assembly also referred to the draft law on “military police” presented by Deputy Defence Minister Ara Nazaryan. According to the draft amendments the military police is empowered to police delivery, conduct outer observation and eavesdrop on telephone conversations.


As expected only the Heritage spoke against the draft bills.


“After the March 1 unrest, the telephone talks of some political figures were deciphered. We shall vote down the bills which aim to eavesdrop on the conversations of political figures and publish them in the press,” said Armen Martirosyan. “Our law-enforcers warn servicemen’s parents against attending opposition rallies if they care for their sons’ future,” he added.


The NA hall filled during the discussion of the draft law on “the combat against illnesses caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).” Republican MPs rushed to the hall elbowing each other, “Let’s go and see what they say about AIDS,” they said to each other.