The order on Procedure for the Use of the Official Delegation Halls of the Airports in the Republic of Armenia by the Officials and Official Delegations” was recognized invalid by the decision of April 9, 2018 and is not regulated by any legal act until now. To organize the process at the appropriate level and operatively it is necessary to regulate the legal relations regarding the procedure for the use of the official delegation hall by the officials and delegations with legal act, which, however at the current phase it is not possible to carry out conditioned by the absence of the appropriate authorizing norm in the law: the Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan said during the NA regular sitting held on September 12, presenting in the first reading the draft law on Making Addendum to the Law Ensuring the Officials’ Activity, Service and Social Guarantees.
According to the rapporteur, to regulate the abovementioned it is necessary to add with parts 4 and 5 the Article 7.9 of the RA Law on Ensuring the Officials’ Activity, Service and Social Guarantees, defining that the procedure for the use of the Official Delegation Halls of the Airports in the Republic of Armenia by the Officials and Official Delegations by the RA Prime Minister’s decision.
The deputy of the Armenia Faction Gegham Nazaryan inquired if it is designed by law who are considered to be the official’s family members and why the official’s family member will enter into the plane through the same hall, in response to which, the NA President Alen Simonyan made his comment.
“I think that everybody understands the definition ‘family members.’ Is there a sense that the official enters into the plane through one building, and the family members – through another one, for example the wife, the children with suitcases,” the NA President noted.
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Adding to the NA President’s words, Mnatsakan Safaryan noted that the term ‘family’ is mentioned in the consular domain – wife/husband, children.
The deputy of the Armenia Faction Artur Khachatryan inquired from Deputy Foreign Minister how the situation has been regulated since 2018. In response to the MP’s question, the representative of the Ministry said that from 2018 the problem has been regulated through special mail correspondence.
“During the official delegations’ arrival decisions have been made on the order of receiving those delegations by the Government. At this moment we settle the issue with relevant addenda,” the Deputy Foreign Minister said.
Maria Karapetyan presented the endorsement of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations and mentioned that the amendment to be made is conditioned by transition from the RA Presidential government system to the parliament government system.
“We add the chain of decisions, which were made still in March-April of 2018,” the deputy noted and added that the employees of the NA Division of State and Legal Expertise made important proposals, which are possible accept during the period from the first to the second reading.
During his speech the Committee member also noted that the special and delegations’ halls of the airport have not many advantages from the general hall. The MP also added that if the official of the Republic of Armenia wants to pass not from the special or delegations’ halls, but from the general hall, the he/she is free on making that decision.
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