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The deputy of the RA NA My Step Faction Nazeli Baghdasaryan sees necessity of specifying the legal status of missing persons.

“Today, we’ll debate the most important theme – the issue of expediency and adoption of the law on Missing Persons. In the phase of the needs’ assessment we’ll be able to fix the problems, which emerged in different departments, until the bill is put into circulation. I think that in the created situation we really have necessity of such legal act in the created situation. I highlight the attendeess’ opinion,” the member of the RA NA My Step Faction Nazeli Baghdasaryan noted.

The MP informed that the draft law had been revised in 2006, but the debate of the issue some departments considered out of date.

“After 44-day war issues have arisen, which we come across every day,” Nazeli Baghdasaryan said, adding that they relate to the status of the missing persons and their relatives’ social guarantees. The MP has informed that they design to edit the legislative initiative being in the embryonic phase, taking as a basis the draft laws. “We have a problem, and our aim is one – to solve that problem,” Baghdasaryan concluded.

It has been informed that there are two documents regarding the missing persons also in PACE, and the first of them relates to the problems of the missing persons during the conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula, and the second one – in the South Caucasus. By the way, the resolution adopted by PACE distinctly notes that the structure welcomes the adoption of the draft law revised by the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor, which didn’t take place in time.

The representatives of the RA Ministry of Defense and Justice presented the pre-history of their objections on the draft law. The position of the Ministry of Defense is that the issues concerning the social situation of the missing absent persons and their relatives are regulated by the RA Civil Code and the RA law on Military Service and the Servicemen’s Status. The representative of the Ministry Sasun Simonyan informed that a month ago the draft law submitted by the Ministry of Justice had a need of revising, taking into consideration the controversial formulations and concerning provisions in it.

The debate of the issue continued behind the closed doors.