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Ara Babloyan: 100 year ago this day parliament of First Republic convened its first session

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Ara Babloyan: 100 year ago this day parliament of First Republic convened its first session

YEREVAN.- Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia Ara Babloyan addressed a congratulatory message on the 100th anniversary of the first session of the parliament of the First Republic of Armenia, the Parliament reported.

The message runs as follows:

“Dear compatriots of Armenia, Artsakh and Diaspora,

100 year ago this day the parliament of the First Republic of Armenia – the Council of Armenia led by Avetik Sahakyan, convened its first session. The period of state-building and lawful work, which has stopped hundreds years ago, has started since this historical day in the newly-independent country.

The work and passed path of the first Armenian parliament was difficult , but it played a unique role for the development of the national legislation, formation of judiciary and organization of state and public life in Armenia in general. The Council of Armenia started operating when the public structures were not formed yet, and it sometimes conducted also the work of the executive leadership, by not only adopting numerous laws and legal documents, but also hundreds of administrative orders and decisions which was linked with the imperative to fight hunger and epidemics, and to organize even the educational work.

At least one year later the Council of Armenia developed with a European model a democratic electoral law for the tim...

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