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    PUBLIC PALACE TO FUNCTION FROM SEPTEMBER GEVORG HARUTYUNYAN

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    Published on May 30, 2008
    Armenia

    Interview with the advisor to the President Garnik Isagulyan.


    `Three weeks back you announced that all the pre-conditions are
    provided to form a Public Palace under the President. What are the
    principles based on which this new representative body will be formed?'

    `After getting President Serge Sargsyan's recommendation to form a
    Public Palace we firstly addressed public applications to our society,
    social organizations, political parties and intellectuals. Our purpose
    is to clarify the principles, goals and problems of forming the Public
    Palace, based on their proposals, and to understand how our society
    views the structure and the staff of this newly formed body.

    We have never had similar institution in Armenian reality, but similar
    bodies with consultative competences formed by the public
    representatives function in many countries in the world. Particularly
    in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Georgia similar
    structures already function.

    In Russia for example the activity of the public-representative body is
    regulated by the law, but in all the other countries the formulation
    process is still on. Each of those structures has chosen its own method
    of representing the opinion of the society.

    We thought that it would be better if the representatives of our
    society give their opinion on how they see the Public Palace. The
    public must express their preferable way of the cooperation between
    society, the state institutions and local self-governmental bodies. We
    attach great importance to the assessment of the society given to the
    decrees to be signed by the President, bills discussed in the National
    Assembly, decisions taken by different administrations, which are going
    to have significant impact on the public life.'

    'Mr. Isagulyan what are the responses, how are the preparation works
    going on?'

    `We expect that the political parties, social organizations, and the
    citizens will continue to send their standpoints and proposals. In the
    Presidential staff the assistants to the President Vigen Sargsyan,
    Sevak Lalayan and me are involved in the group coordinating this work.
    We have given our telephone numbers and e-mail address.

    Especially social organizations and individuals are very active. We
    have received hundreds of applications, proposals and messages. And
    telephone calls are practically non-stop. To make the public
    involvement complete and taking into account the existing internal
    political tension, we decided to appeal to the political powers not
    represented in the parliament. We have especially appealed to the
    pro-oppositional powers to express their standpoints.

    We are very much interested in the active participation of those social
    organizations that have critical attitude towards us.

    It is well known that the number of the parties officially registered
    in our country is too much but most of them don't function and our
    telephone calls and letters remain unanswered.

    We are especially consistent to have the opinion of those parties,
    regarding the Public Palace, that didn't overcome the 5% barrier during
    the last Parliamentary elections. We have appealed to the offices of
    the ex Presidents and the presidential candidates who participated in
    the last presidential elections.

    We have called the office of Armenian Pan National Movement, first
    President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and the offices of the movement
    `Impeachment'. We have done everything so that no one will feel ignored.

    May 30 is the deadline to get answers to our applications. We expect to
    understand from those answers, which parties and organizations have
    desire to become part of the Public Palace, and which - to become
    candidates. By the way the list of those who have already expressed
    desire is rather big.'
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