20 February 2007
Armenia voted for double citizenship...
Now one more country allowes to have two passports - Armenia. I am really disappointed sometimes when I hear that some Belarusians have to cancel their Belarusian citizenship when they decide to accept a new one (in the USA for example). The problem is that you can be only Belarusian citizen and not a citizen of any other country. Even Russian allows double citizenship...
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Russian legislation does not allow any double citizenship either. Nor do most countries AFAIK.
BUT: one should distinguish between having a double citizenship and having passports of two countries. Double citizenship means that your second passport is officially accepted by each of the states you belong to. If you simply have two passports, every state treats you as a usual citizen as if you'd not have any other citizenship. For men it means, e.g., that a they'd have to serve at both armies of both of their countries :]
I do realise that having two passports can be a problem if for example the countries which passports you hold are in a state of war (that's the main argument against two passports from international law point of view). But still I don't really see the difference between passport and citizenship?
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