STEPANAKERT. - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) President Bako Sahakyan today convened a working consultation on the constitutional reforms in the country.

In his speech, the President mentioned that in any state as well as in Karabakh, public relations constantly change, this requiring new solutions in the area of legal regulation, some of which give rise to constitutional changes, Central Information Department of the Office of Karabakh President reports. “While making any change we should proceed from the imperative of strengthening the country’s security, democracy and social cohesion. This urges to set the public and state interest above anything”, Bako Sahakyan stressed.

He also noted that the further consolidation of democracy and law supremacy, balance of the power branches and increase in the efficiency of public administration should underlie the constitutional reforms.

It is necessary to do everything possible for implementing the process in an open and transparent climate based on mutual respect, the President added.

“The supreme power in the Artsakh Republic belongs to the people, who themselves master their own future. Our nation’s value system, its history and the path traversed by it, as well as their optimism and self-efficacy will allow us to make the right choice”, President Sahakyan concluded.

National Assembly Speaker Ashot Ghoulyan, PM Arayik Haroutyunyan, members of the Specialist Commission on Constitutional Reforms, as well as representatives of legislative, executive and judicial branches of the country took part in the consultation.