YEREVAN, APRIL 29, NOYAN TAPAN. RA NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamian at the April 29 sitting proposed Artur Aghabekian, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs, and Armen Rustamian, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, withdrawing their applications on resignation. NA Vice-Speaker Hrayr Karapetian also introduced a resignation conditioned by the ARFD decision on coming out of the coalition on April 27. The NA Speaker said that the Armenian parliament had precedents when opposition representatives headed standing committees, and such a possibility is also given by the amendments made to the NA Regulations in 2008 October. According to H. Abrahamian, though these amendments will work for the parliament of next convocation, today the political coalition calls the ARFD faction for withdrawing the applications on committee chairmen's resignation. In response to the proposal ARFD faction head, party Bureau member Vahan Hovhannisian thanked the NA Speaker and the political coalition for the proposal and on behalf of the faction promised to study the proposal and to submit the answer to the parliament.

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