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    ARMENIA'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION BIG STEP FORWARD

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    Aug 3 2005

    YEREVAN, August 3. /ARKA/. The draft amendments to Armenia's
    Constitution are a big step forward compared with the previous drafts,
    the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of
    Europe to Armenia Boyana Urumova told a press-conference. She agreed
    with the conclusion of the Venetian Commission that this draft is
    progress and it is a good basis to ensure activity of democratic
    institutions in the country. Urumova pointed to the willingness
    and efforts of the Armenian authorities to promote the process of
    constitutional reforms. She said that the opposition also should
    make a compromise. The authorities together with the opposition and
    civil society should be consistent in the final discussion of the
    draft to reach a political consensus, Urumova said. She said that the
    political majority and the opposition parties should do their best
    to maintain the constructive political dialogue. In this context she
    pointed out the necessity to raise public awareness of the expected
    amendments to the Constitution. The RA National Assembly approved
    the draft amendments to Constitution in the first reading on May 11,
    2005, which was proposed by the ruling coalition. Its adoption in
    the second reading is expected at the end of August, 2005. A.A. -0--
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