The parliamentarians are not afraid of Venice

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| 15:52:42 | 27-05-2005 | Politics |

THE PARLIAMENTARIANS ARE NOT AFRAID OF VENICE

On June 1-2 the Venice Commission experts will arrive in Armenia to get
acquainted with the course of the Constitutional reforms. Let us remind you
that the coalition draft has been chosen as basis for the Constitutional
reforms. And the coalition has not yet taken into account come of the
principle problems put forward by the Venice commission.

Galoust Sahakyan, leader of the Republican party forming part of the
coalition is convinced that the issue will be solved till the third hearing.
He called the journalists not to represent the experts as people who are
coming to Armenia to punish us.

According to another member of the coalition Levon Lazarian, there will
soon be a coalition session during which the unclear parts of the
constitutional reforms will be discussed. According to Levon Lazarian, the
main issue is the demand that the Yerevan mayor be elected, which is not
included in the coalition draft. `I am sure that tête-à-tête discussions
which clear out everything. Sending each other notes is one thing, speaking
to each other is another’, said Mr. Lazarian, who is convinced that
sometimes problems are brought about by the wrong translation.