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image by Zoltan Horvath, 9 April 2024
Wikipedia shows a Presidential flag, based on the national flag, but defaced
with the presidential seal at its centre. The seal is in the form of a disk,
surrounded by two alternating octagonal twisted ribbons. In the center of the
disc is the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Armenia, in
the upper part of which there are two spikes of wheat and the words “REPUBLIC OF
ARMENIA.” The Emblem of the Presidential Power is placed on the tricolor strap
of the Flag of the Republic of Armenia.
Zoltan Horvath, 9 April 2024
It seems that this flag might date from 5 April 2013 according to
https://www.president.am/en/decrees/item/853/ with the adoption of the badge
of office. The first PDF link gives the authorization for a flag, but gives no
technical specifications. I also have not seen a flag in use to be able to judge
the size of the emblem on the flag.
Zachary Harden, 9 April 2024
image
located by Victor Lomantsov, 10 April 2024
The Decree from 5 April 2013 does not contain a single word about the flag.
The emblem is for the president only. The Decree says "..the emblem of the
Presidential power is used on the tricolour ribbon in the colours of the Armenia
state flag".
At the inauguration ceremony a special soldier carries a metal
presidential emblem on the screen with the national ribbon (see photo). But no
flag of the president exists (yet).
Victor Lomantsov, 10 April 2024
This looks like the presidential sash which is used in a number of other
countries.
Tomislav Todorovic, 10 April 2024
I read that the flag only exists in one physical copy, which is displayed in
the presidential palace.
Zoltan Horvath, 11 April 2024
That this is the presidential flag of Armenia is also in Wikidata at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4283840, and might have escaped the
comparatively stringent quality asessment of the English Wikipedia.
The
flag image included in that article without any sourcing is also at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_President_of_Armenia.svg
where it indicates as source a photo of what seems to me to be a sash buckle
laid on a flag, surely not a flag with an embroidered emblem:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidential_Standard_of_Armenia.jpg
The source of this photo was the official webpage itself, as of 2016,
https://www.president.am/en/Symbol-of-Presidential-Power, and what is there
right now is not the 2019 photo but a synthetic image with similar content
https://www.president.am/files/pics/2017/12/18/55718.jpg. The buckle seems
to be photographed, and the background and shadow are clearly digitally
constructed.
I would conclude, especially based on the shadow of the
buckle on its flag background, recreated upon partial digitification of the
image, that this is not a flag design, merely a three-dimensional object resting
on a flag, but the English-language page about the subject at the official
presidential website states that "The Emblem of the Presidential Power is placed
on the tricolor strap of the Flag of the Republic of Armenia." Is this a weird
way to say that the sash this is the buckle of has three stripes like the flag,
and not a mention to an actual flag? The inclusion of "the" is puzzling, and
comparing with the three other language versions (Armenian, French, and Russian)
doesn’t help me, even though I can recognize the critical words "դրոշի",
"флага", and "drapeau".
António Martins-Tuválkin,
11 April 2024
