MP from ruling party: Draft Constitution of Armenia has nothing to do  with external forces

ArmInfo. It is the Armenian people who will make all decisions regarding the Constitution of Armenia, including the issue of Artsakh and the Armenian Genocide. Head of the Civil Contract faction, Hayk Konjorian, told reporters on February 6.

However, as the MP noted, there is no final conclusion on the project  yet. After the well-known speech of Prime Minister of the Republic of  Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at the Ministry of Justice on January 19, a  process of discussions began, during which both civil society and the  ruling and opposition forces will present their positions and  approaches, and only after that the development of the draft Basic  Law of the country will begin. "But at this stage it is too early to  talk about this, even more so to draw conclusions," said Konjoryan.

He called on media representatives to closely monitor the situation.  "When Azerbaijan makes this or that statement, it pursues its own  goals. If they know that this or that remark will not give them  anything, they will not talk about it. Baku will always make  statements that are aimed at harming Armenia, because everything that  is bad for our country is good for them," the MP noted, calling on  media representatives to consider take this circumstance.

Moreover, the draft Constitution itself does not have any relation to  external forces. The discussions themselves, Konjaryan continued, are  in the interests of Armenia and the Armenian people, as they  correspond to the new era and new challenges.

On January 19, at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia,  Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated the need to adopt a  new Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, in the preamble of which  there is a reference to the Declaration of Independence adopted in  1990, which mentions the joint resolution of the Supreme Council of  the Armenian SSR and the National Council of Nagorno-Karabakh dated  December 1, 1989 "On the reunification of the Armenian SSR and  Nagorno-Karabakh." In addition, the main provisions of the formation  of statehood are fixed in the Declaration - from establishing  relations with other countries to demanding international recognition  of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey. Last year, the  Armenian prime minister spoke of disagreement with the Declaration of  Independence, which contained a "confrontational narrative." Before  Pashinyan's latest statement about the need for a new Constitution,  only amendments to the Basic Law were discussed. It is curious that  the initiative of the Armenian prime minister coincided with the  demand of the President of Azerbaijan for Armenia to adopt a new  Basic Law. -