Tuesday, March 19 2019 17:43

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sees no problems in expanding the composition of the Security Council, but this will not be "correct"  with regard to the President and the Speaker of the Parliament.

"I'm generally not against the expansion of the National Security Council  and the inclusion of the President and the Speaker of Parliament, but  it will not be correct in their attitude," the premier assured at a  press conference.He explained that the activities of the Security  Council in the Constitution are regulated by the head defining the  work of the government. "If we include the President and the Speaker  of Parliament in the Security Council, we will automatically lower  their status to the status of members of the Cabinet. It turns out  that the President and the Speaker will work in the Security Council  under my leadership," the Prime Minister explained. 

At the same time, as a solution to the problem, he proposed calling  the speaker and the president to meetings of the Security Council as  "invited guests."Touching on the recent incident with the invitation  of President Armen Sargsyan to the joint session of the Security  Council of Armenia and Artsakh in Stepanakert, Pashinyan explained:  "The composition of the meeting was determined only late at night the  day before the meeting. I tried to call the President to invite him  to the meeting, however, he did not answered the calls. Then I  ordered to contact the President of the RA Security Council Secretary  Armen Grigoryan, and told him that the President could fly from  Yerevan to Stepanakert on my helicopter together with Defense  Minister David Tonoyan. bodies in Stepanakert the day before the  meeting. Then they told me that the president could not come for  technical reasons. After that, to be honest, I didn't talk to him.  "It should be noted that earlier the press service of the RA  President said that it was very late for Armenia to receive the  invitation of Sarkisian to participate in the joint meeting of the  Security Council of Armenia and Artsakh in Stepanakert and for  technical reasons could not take part in it. Despite the fact that  the President and the Speaker of the Parliament are not members of  the Security Council, Ararat Mirzoyan nevertheless took part in the  Stepanakert meeting.