Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated the necessity of amending Armenia's Constitution. In his address on Constitution Day on July 5, Pashinyan emphasized that the country needs a new Constitution.
"Due to circumstances known to us all, the Armenian citizen today does not feel that the Constitution expresses his vision and agreement on the rules of life with him and his neighbor, with his community, with other residents of his state. The citizen believes that the ruling elite created this text, declared its adoption, and essentially imposed it on Armenia," said Pashinyan.
"I have always been convinced that this is a fundamental problem for our country. We need a new Constitution, and at the moment, I am speaking not so much about textual novelty as about the novelty of the method of its creation and adoption. We need a new Constitution that the people will consider something they created, something they accepted, and believe that what is written in it reflects their vision of the state they created and the relationships between people, citizens in this state," he added.
Pashinyan emphasized that "we need a Constitution organically linked with the Constitution of the people."
He noted that this topic is now actively discussed both domestically and abroad. "We must steadfastly continue our path to strengthening our state, the Republic of Armenia, making it invulnerable institutionally, psychologically, and physically," said the Prime Minister.
"This is a difficult but honorable path, and we are on the right path, but to follow this path, we need to focus on one specific issue – serving the state interests of the Republic of Armenia because the state interests of the Republic of Armenia are the interests of the sovereign, that is, the people of the Republic of Armenia, the interests of real people living in the real Armenia, which the Republic of Armenia created as an instrument to ensure their freedom, welfare, happiness, and security on its internationally recognized territory, to form a just environment, and we must not deviate from this goal," stated Pashinyan.
