DUAL CITIZENSHIP IS STILL SUBJECT FOR ARGUMENTS
Support A1+!Today the Civic Debates Club had organized the following seminar in the hotel “Yerevan” with the theme “Dual Citizenship in Armenia”. United Labor Party member Grigor Ghonjeyan and coalition member Hrayr Karapetyan were invited to the seminar. Both of them are NA deputies, and the latter was not present at the seminar.
Grigor Ghonjeyan represented the point of view of the United Labor Party to eliminate the prohibition of dual citizenship in the Constitution. Nevertheless, they mentioned that the Constitution must regulate the whole field of dual citizenship and not leave anything to be regulated by further laws. The reason, according to Mr. Ghonjeyan, was that their party is a religion of free ideas and they do not encourage any prohibition of the basic freedom of people.
The draft Constitution processed by the coalition has already been adopted by the Parliament majority. By this draft the prohibition of dual citizenship is eliminated, but all the other issues are left to be regulated by further laws.
The speaker of today’s seminar brought the example of Russia, “Russia has not adopted dual citizenship. If today we adopt it and give the citizens of other countries the right to take part in elections, and if tomorrow Russia adopts it too, the fate of our country will be decided directly in Kremlin”.
The ULP member defended this point of view with the fact that by their draft the people define with a constitutional referendum that in Armenia the dual citizen cannot have the right to elect or be elected.
Nevertheless, there was no political debate, as during the meeting no opposite ideas sounded.
