Yerevan Accepts Council Of Europe Demands On Constitution

Friday 24, June 2005
Armenia Liberty
By Armen Zakarian in Strasbourg

Official Yerevan formally committed itself to accepting the key Council of Europe recommendations on the reform of Armenia’s controversial constitution on Friday, [...].

[...] they will make three far-reaching changes in a package of constitutional amendments that will be put to a referendum later this year.

Those amendments would considerably curtail President Robert Kocharian’s sweeping powers to appoint and sack the government as well as judges at will. They would also make the mayor of Yerevan, home of at least one third of Armenia’s population, an elected official.
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The PACE {Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe} urged the opposition on Thursday to end the boycott and “do everything possible to promote the recommendations of the Council of Europe with regard to the constitutional reform.”

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