On June 12 the MPs approved by voting the agenda of June 12-14 sittings and the NA decision on making amendments to the sittings’ agenda.

The drafts presented by the “Ardarutiun” faction on the establishment of the NA Ad-hoc Committee on Studying the Violations during the Referendum on November 27, 2005 on the RA Constitutional Amendments and on Establsihment of the NA Ad-hoc Committee on Studying the Violations during the RA State Elections in 2003 were rejected by voting.

Due to a lack of quorum, the session drafts and sitting agenda drafts included in the first part were not adopted.

The MPs continued the debates on Report of the RA Civil Service Council Activity, interrupted at previous sitting.

Rafik Petrosyan, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs, highly evaluating the work of the Council, noted that though the Council’s fundamental rights are fixed in the Fundamental Law related to Civil Service, the Council didn’t enforce it and didn’t present the analytical report.

The RA President’s proposals submitted by the RA President Assistant Gevorg Mheryan on Making Amendments and Addendum to the RA Criminal Executive Code and on Making Amendment to the RA Criminal Procedure Code were also debated.

Rafik Petrosyan, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs informed that the misunderstanding took place: instead of the option, debated and voted in the Parliament, on the fault of the Government representative the previous option of the draft was sent to the President. According to the evaluation of Gurgen Arsenyan, Head of ULP faction, it is not misunderstanding, but the falsification took place. Mr. Arsenyan blamed their faction as well, as political power assumed over a political responsibility.

The NA President T. Torosyan informed that the assignment had already been given to the staff: to create mechanisms to avoid similar situations, which afterwards must be fixed in the regulation.

The MPs debated Agreement on International Automobile Communication signed between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Government of the Republic of Georgia.

All speakers highlighted the presented Agreement not only in the sphere of strengthening of good-neighborliness with Georgia, but from the economic and political point.

Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of the Central Bank, presented the RA Central Bank 2005 Annual report.

The debate of this issue will resume on June 13 sitting.