“I propose to temporarily suspend discussions on the draft at the voting stage. We will not have time to include the bill in the agenda of the next four-day parliamentary sessions, starting on March 4,” Yegoian noted. According to the committee chairman, the deputies have not yet been able to agree with the bill’s authors on the amendments submitted by the Government. Particularly, the Council of Ministers proposed to eliminate the preamble.
The document, which announces the start of the process of Armenia’s accession to the EU, seeks, according to its authors, “to turn Armenia into a safe, secure, developed and prosperous country”.
Earlier, the Tengo Honor faction stated that such a project endangers Armenia’s free trade in the markets of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), moreover, it called it absurd from the legal point of view.
As the representative of the Armenian initiative group Artak Zeinalian warned earlier, the draft law does not envisage any referendum on the country’s accession to the EU bloc, but declares the beginning of the process.
At the same time, it admitted that no candidate country for EU’s membership has ever passed such a law before.
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