“In case of accession to the CU, Armenia will concede part of its sovereignty”
18:54, October 30, 2013 | News | Civil Control«Serzh Sargsyan, acting on behalf of the RA President, has reached a decision on his own, it is true that pursuant to Article 55 of the RA Constitution, the RA president is authorized to represent his country in the relations with other states, but he cannot enjoy such an authorization and exercise his decision without consulting with other branches of the Government,” today Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Artur Sakunts expressed such an opinion at a discussion on “Observation of the decision of membership to the CU within the framework of Armenia’s legal field”.
By his words, the government should be accountable, transparent and predictable for each of us.
“The decisions adopted within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union are bounding for member countries, and their legislations should be in line with the decisions reached by the Union. Here we are faced with the fact of the Republic of Armenia as a sovereign state. It means, you should concede one part of your sovereignty in order to become in line with the decisions reached by that trans-governmental entity of the Eurasian Union and get adapted to those, where Russia’s decision prevails”.
According to Sakunts, we are faced with quite a serious issue, we have an issue connected with aggravation of the situation, the administration and administrative proceedings serve as grounds to appeal it.
“In the given situation, it is subject of appeal in case of the actions, which were proceeded by decision of the RA Government to create an Inter-governmental Committee and discuss the documents connected with the accession to the Customs Union”.
The speaker added that Serzh Sargsyan failed to follow the procedures peculiar to democratic country since there was no public participation in that decision.
“I should not wake up and get to know in the morning that such a decision was reached which totally alters the situation, I should have been warned of it, alas, it did not happen so”.
According to him, moving this issue to legal a platform is also an opportunity of public mobilization at least related to the public discourse.
The human rights activist stated that turning all this into documents is a serious legal work and only one or two lawyers are still unable to complete it.
Source: http://www.1in.am/arm/armenia_politics_225969.html
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