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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT AMENDS LAW ON INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

    news.am
    Feb 25 2010
    Armenia

    By 70 to four, the RA Parliament has adopted amendments to the RA
    Law on International Agreements in their second reading.

    The new law provides for the termination and suspension of signing
    and ratification of international agreements in Armenia at any
    stage before the process is completed. The Armenian Revolutionary
    Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) (ARFD) did not take part in the voting
    as the amendments proposed by it were not incorporated in the draft.

    The ARF proposed that the RA Parliament be entitled to terminate
    or suspend the procedure of adopting international agreements. The
    ARF also proposed an amendment on introducing reservations into
    international agreements.

    The ARF also drafted another relevant bill and submitted it to
    the Government. Speaking in Parliament, RA Foreign Minister Edward
    Nalbandian stated that the ARF-submitted proposals were not considered
    as the Government is now considering the ARF-submitted bill. According
    to the Minister, the bill is a most complicated document, and the
    Government is not in a hurry to give its opinion. As regards the
    ARF's proposal for introduction of reservations into international
    agreements, Nalbandian stressed that reservations are normally
    introduced into multilateral, rather than bilateral, agreements.

    The Heritage parliamentary faction voted against the bill as
    well. "We do not, as a rule, vote for incomplete documents," said
    Stepan Safaryan, Press Secretary of the Heritage faction.

    Experts account for the hasty adoption of the law by the RA Parliament
    by RA President Serzh Sargsyan's recent statement that Armenia was to
    introduce relevant amendments into the order of signing, ratifying
    or invalidating international agreements in case Armenia decides to
    withdraw from the Armenian-Turkish dialogue.
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