ArmInfo.The Constitution must be viewed as a living document that needs to be amended from time to time. Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly Vladimir Vardanyan stated on February 1 in a conversation with journalists, answering a question about the need to change the Basic Law of the country.
"It is not only me or you who decide to change, but also the people who will vote for this or that constitution. Accordingly, it can be changed from time to time through a nationwide referendum," he said, adding that the Basic Law is not a "sacred cow."
The parliamentarian emphasized that he cannot say in what direction further discussions on this issue will go, but he himself is opposed to changing the Basic Law of the country "once a week." However, he continued, there is no final decision on its content yet; there are ideas that are only being discussed.
The need to adopt a new Constitution was first spoken about by Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan during his visit to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia on January 19. There is a fairly widespread opinion in Armenian society that this initiative was put forward under the direct pressure of Azerbaijan, which insists on excluding references to the Declaration of Independence from the Basic Law. Today, during a meeting with a delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that 'it is possible to achieve the signing of a peace treaty if the Constitution of Armenia and other legal documents are changed'.