Armenian Constitution needs improvement, expert says
13:45 • 05.07.12

Armenian Constitution is not bad, it just needs to be improved, member of the Constitutional Court, professor Felix Tokhyan told the reporters today.
“I regret that only part of the invitees attended the yesterday’s event in the CC organized on the occasion of the Constitution Day. It shows the country’s attitude toward the Constitution. Today should have been a real holiday for all of us,” he said.
Felix Tokhyan, who has worked in three constitutional commissions, noted that the draft constitution which was his dream was not put at the referendum.
“The methodology of reforms should be chosen in a right way. We did it right in 1995, after it we have started diverting from the right path,” he said, adding that the best reforms were drafted in 1999 highly assessed by the Venice Commission. “They said it was the best in Europe, but that variant was not adopted,” he said.
The specialist said the Article 1 of the Constitution claiming that the Republic of Armenia is a sovereign, democratic, social State governed by the rule of law is not acting today.
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