YEREVAN. – The draft constitutional reform for Armenia proposes to improve the constitutional provision regarding fundamental rights.

Constitutional law expert Vardan Poghosyan, who is also a member of the President-affiliated Specialized Committee on Constitutional Reforms, stated the aforementioned at Friday’s National Assembly (NA) hearings.

In his words, the rights and freedoms were not separated in the constitutional reform that was carried out in Armenia in 2005.

With the new draft Constitution, as per Poghosyan, and considering the international track-record, the classic rights, which are subject to immediate protection, are brought together in Chapter 2 of the draft while the rights, whose content shall be defined by law, are put together in Chapter 3.

Vardan Poghosyan added that aside from legislative guarantees, the main objectives of Armenian state policy, and whereby the government shall be accountable to parliament, are specified in the proposed constitutional reform.

The new draft Constitution of Armenia has been forwarded to the NA. The respective parliamentary debates will get underway on September 15. And as per the NA speaker, the constitutional referendum should be conducted in late fall.

Pursuant to the new draft Constitution, Armenia will make a transition from a presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.