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    DUAL CITIZENSHIP IS STILL SUBJECT FOR ARGUMENTS

    A1plus

    | 18:35:00 | 20-05-2005 | Social |

    Today the Civic Debates Club had organized the following seminar in the
    hotel "Yerevan" with the theme "Dual Citizenship in Armenia". United
    Labor Party member Grigor Ghonjeyan and coalition member Hrayr
    Karapetyan were invited to the seminar. Both of them are NA deputies,
    and the latter was not present at the seminar.

    Grigor Ghonjeyan represented the point of view of the United Labor
    Party to eliminate the prohibition of dual citizenship in the
    Constitution. Nevertheless, they mentioned that the Constitution
    must regulate the whole field of dual citizenship and not leave
    anything to be regulated by further laws. The reason, according to
    Mr. Ghonjeyan, was that their party is a religion of free ideas and
    they do not encourage any prohibition of the basic freedom of people.

    The draft Constitution processed by the coalition has already been
    adopted by the Parliament majority. By this draft the prohibition of
    dual citizenship is eliminated, but all the other issues are left to
    be regulated by further laws.

    The speaker of today's seminar brought the example of Russia, "Russia
    has not adopted dual citizenship. If today we adopt it and give the
    citizens of other countries the right to take part in elections,
    and if tomorrow Russia adopts it too, the fate of our country will
    be decided directly in Kremlin".

    The ULP member defended this point of view with the fact that by
    their draft the people define with a constitutional referendum that in
    Armenia the dual citizen cannot have the right to elect or be elected.

    Nevertheless, there was no political debate, as during the meeting
    no opposite ideas sounded.
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