Armenian civic group seeks to initiate referendum on EU accession

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YEREVAN, September 5. /ARКА/. A civic initiative that intends to organize the collection of signatures for a referendum on Armenia's accession to the EU, submitted today a string of required documents to the Central Election Commission *CEC)./pp

According to the CEC, a group of 51 citizens submitted a decision to form an initiative group that will propose a draft law On the Start of the Process of Armenia's Membership in the European Union./pp

Artak Zeynalyan (co-founder, deputy chairman of the 'Hanrapetutyun' party) has been appointed as the authorized representative of the group./pp

In accordance with the Constitutional Law On Referendum, the CEC must review the application for registration of the initiative group and its authorized representative within 10 days or reject it./p