Editor-in-chief of Azg paper, chairman of Armenakan-Ramkavar Azatakan party Hagop Avedikian said that the idea of a unified legislative body binding Diaspora Armenians was voiced back in 1970s.

Orientalist Nikolay Hovhannisyan and some others spoke for a bicameral parliament several years ago, Avedikian told a press conference in Yerevan.

Meanwhile, according to him, a bicameral parliament steams from needs of Diaspora rather than Armenia.

He noted that currently 18,000 citizens of Armenia have dual citizenship and the upper house would provide them with the opportunity to be represented in the Armenian parliament and participate in parliamentary elections.

RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan said during a meeting with the Armenian community of California that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan wants to propose a constitutional amendment, which would create two parliamentary houses, one of which will allow Diaspora Armenians to be part of the legislature