
July 19, 2002 - 05:00 AMT

15:26 GMT
The US is extremely concerned with the intention of Azeri authorities to force the adoption of Constitutional amendments that are to guarantee the realization of Heydar Aliyev’s neomonarchic scenario. Yesterday the official Washington in the person of State Department spokesman Richard Boucher stated about inadmissibility of referendum conducting without proper preliminary discussion. Americans insist on postponement of the terms of plebiscite holding and expediency of engaging broad masses of the society in the constitutional reform process. The package of the amendments proposed by the president stipulates new versions of over thirty articles of the constitutional law.