NA staff did everything possible to escape management crisis growing in the country in 2018: Ara Saghatelyan

Head of the NA staff-Secretary General Ara Saghataleyan gave an interview to Tert.am after the traditional New Year reception conducted in the NA.

Asked about the submitted resignation application and plans for future, Saghatelyan said he has not submitted application yet but is planning to do it either by the end of the day or on Monday.

“I think it is quite sensible and logical decision. Though the NA staff is apolitical body, and I am not member of any party, I think in the current political situation the NA secretary general is to leave together with the chairman he came with giving the new leadership of the parliament an opportunity to entrust this responsible post to the representative of their team,” he said, adding that he has stated about the intention to leave the post still in December and expressed gratitude to the NA chairman Ara Babloyan for entrusting him this post.

As to the developments in spring of 2018 when management crisis was raising in the country and the role of the NA in preventing it, Saghatelyan said that during the developments the NA staff did everything possible to ensure all the conditions for the lawmakers to implement their constitutional functions.

“We clearly realized that even one uncalculated step in such tensed situation could have resulted in serious shocks in the state apparatus, violate the fragile balance among the branches of power and bring our country to a situation the overcoming of which would demand huge resources and time,” he said.

“In short, we had three issues – ensure normal work of the lawmakers and chairmanship, ensure the communication among the legislative body and other two branches of the power and in parallel ensure implementation of administrative reforms in the NA, development of staff's skills, uninterrupted international cooperation and of course completing the normative process of passage to parliamentary system set by the new Constitution,” he stressed.