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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 11:58:01 EDT
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ENDS SPRING SESSION IN TURMOIL. The 12 June
parliament session, the last before the summer recess, ended after 50
minutes without reaching a solution to the standoff between
opposition deputies demanding a debate on President Robert
Kocharian's impeachment and the pro-presidential majority that
rejects that demand as legally unsubstantiated, RFE/RL's Yerevan
bureau reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 and 12 June 2002).
Opposition deputies continued to block the rostrum and prevent a
debate, so the majority rubber-stamped three bills without
discussion, a procedure that Gagik Harutiunian, deputy chairman of
the standing commission on state-legal issues, protested as a
violation of parliamentary regulations, according to Noyan Tapan.
Both sides denied that they are considering asking the Constitutional
Court to rule on the legality of the opposition demand for a debate
on impeachment. LF
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