YEREVAN, February 6. /ARKA/. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian refused today to sign into law two bills passed earlier by the National Assembly, his press office reported. It said one of the bills is about a set of amendments made to the law on Criminal Procedure and the other is about amendments made to the law on Bank Secrecy.

The president explained his refusal to sign the bills by the fact that some provisions in them are problematic in terms of constitutionality.

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Armenian urban development minister Narek Sargsyan said today the government is going to enforce a legislation allowing insurance of buildings in the capital city Yerevan from 2016

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The Armenian National Assembly committees are to open the 2016 draft budget discussion on November 2, the press office of the National Assembly reported on Wednesday

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Armenia’s National Assembly has passed today in the first reading a Central Bank-proposed bill that calls for a dramatic increase in the size of insured individual bank deposits both in the national currency, the dram and in foreign currency

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Armenian national assembly ratifies €6.5-million loan agreement with EBRD.

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