“For more than a year, there is no article on the protection of the constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia due to the light hand of some circles. And our attitude to all of this best shows how much we remember the Constitution, apart from July 5,” political scientist Stepan Safaryan, the founder of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA), said at the joint discussion of the Constitutional Reforms Commission and the National Platform of the EaP CSF Armenia.
According to him, if the Constitution is the architecture of the state, state order, management and structure, and no responsibility is foreseen for violating that order, why did they want to release one of the former presidents from responsibility for that violation, is an extremely worrying situation, and in fact, there is no article protecting the RA Constitution.
“Since we are preparing for constitutional amendments, I would like to inform the legal scholars about something that I think has been neglected in the past and not because they have been more focused on who will have power and how to transfer power from one person to another, but it is the security aspect.
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The 44-day war revealed something very tragic, especially in the sense that the operation of the RA Constitution was not only seriously analyzed from a security point of view, but also not analyzed in its integrity with the Constitution of the Republic of Artsakh, because we remember when the former Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan was asked a question, what is his class, and he said that he did not know his place in the entire structure of the command. During the war, the prime minister becomes the commander-in-chief, the head of the General Staff becomes the link that executes his direct orders, to all this is added the fact that the President of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, is asked about his role in the war, and he says: According to the Constitution, I have a mechanism to ensure territorial integrity, but the Constitution is such a tool, according to this pyramid: RA Prime Minister, Chief of the General Staff, Minister, Artsakh President, Head of the Artsakh Armed Forces, the chaos we had in this entire hierarchy was the reason why our constitutionalists did not like to look in a different direction, other perspectives, apart from their own world. They did not understand that apart from the phenomena of preserving the power, of “holding power” in the elections, there are much more important things, especially that the danger was visible from where it was coming from,” said Safaryan and asked the constitutional reform commission to pay attention to these problems and make changes in that direction.
Nelly BABAYAN
