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Armenia - Presidental Flag

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[Flag] 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