SPECIAL DEBATE ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN ARMENIA MAY BE INITIATED
IN PACE ONCE AGAIN
YEREVAN, JUNE 7. ARMINFO. Special debate on constitutional amendments
in Armenia may be initiated once again at the PACE summer session to
be held Jun 20-24, informed a worker of the CE press department
Estelle Steiner in an interview to ARMINFO. Besides, a special meeting
of the Venice Commission members with the Armenian delegation to PACE
(Jun 23) will be dedicated to issues of constitutional amendments.
To remind, in a recent talk to ARMINFO’s reporter the Venice
Commission expert Gianni Buquicchio noted that the Commission has
worked with Armenia in this direction since 2000 and “a time has come
to present a well elaborated democratic Constitution corresponding to
international and European standards”. He reminded that it is
necessary to balance powers of a parliament and a president, to widen
powers of local self-government bodies, to do the post of Yerevan
mayor electoral, and provide the independence of juridical system to
have a democratic Constitution. Besides, the expert, refuting
accusations of some Armenian political figures, stressed that the
expert estimation made by the Venice Commission is independent and
objective, and includes no political aim or order. -r-