"Sasna Tsrer": in the government of Armenia indicated the way to  resolve the issue of granting citizenship to Zhirair Sefilyan

ArmInfo. The member of the  Sasna Tsrer party, the hero of the Karabakh war, Zhirayr Sefilyan was  again denied retroactive citizenship. This is reported by the  secretariat of the All-Armenian Sasna Tsrer Party, in response to the  intensification of discussions on the next denial of citizenship to  Sefilyan.

The Sasna Tsrer party recalls that on August 1, Zhirayr Sefilyan  addressed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about backdating  Armenian citizenship, but the head of the Prime Minister's office,  Eduard Aghajanyan, said that this issue could be resolved in court.

In this regard, in a popular statement of the Sasna Tsrer party, in  particular, it is noted: "The head of the government staff of  Armenia, in fact, fixes the lack of desire to grant Zhirayra Sefilyan  retroactively, and if he does not agree with this decision, he can  appeal to court".

"Sasna Tsrer" reports that Sefilyan on August 2, in accordance with  the procedure established by law, applied for citizenship also under  the usual procedure. He attached a letter to this statement in which  he called on the Armenian Prime Minister to resolve the issue of  retroactive citizenship, given his previous requests for citizenship.  "After two months, in early October, Zhirayr Sefilyan received a  letter from the government staff, which stated that the letter was  set in the prescribed manner," the report says. At the same time,  representatives of the intelligentsia appealed to the Prime Minister  with a request to grant Sefilyan Armenian citizenship retroactively,  as he had previously applied for citizenship three times, however,  "his applications were illegally rejected." Meanwhile, the Sasna  Tsrer party stresses that the law does not prohibit the previously  submitted applications for citizenship to be considered respectful  and provides an opportunity to receive it in hindsight.