Politician demands invalidation of decision to remove image of Mount  Ararat from border crossing stamps 

ArmInfo. Edmon Marukyan, leader of the Bright Armenia party, demanded that the government's decision to remove the image of Mount Ararat from border crossing stamps be invalidated. The politician wrote this on his Facebook  account. 

"On October 16, 2025, I filed a petition with the RA Administrative  Court demanding that paragraph 4 of Part 1 of the RA Government  Resolution of September 11, 2025, which decided to exclude the image  of Mount Ararat from stamps issued for crossing the state border of  Armenia effective November 1, 2025, be declared invalid. The petition  is based on a number of constitutional and legal provisions,  according to which the contested decision contradicts Articles 21,  23, and 56 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, as well as  Article 2 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia 'On the Coat of Arms  of the Republic of Armenia.' In my opinion, Mount Ararat is not only  the state symbol of the Republic of Armenia, but also a fundamental  element of the national-ethnic identity of the Armenian people, and  its exclusion from state symbolic use is a step against that  identity," Marukyan said.

He noted that this government decision violates the rights of  citizens of the Republic of Armenia to preserve their identity and  dignity, as guaranteed by the Constitution. It also contradicts the  value system formed by public consensus regarding state symbols.

"The justifications given by the Prime Minister, the Secretary of the  Security Council, and the members of the Civil Contract faction  regarding the decision to remove the image of Mount Ararat legitimize  approaches that are unconstitutional and undermine public trust in  state symbols. I petitioned the court to suspend the contested  decision until a final ruling is issued on the case, noting that its  application would lead to irreversible consequences not only for me  but also for society," the politician wrote.