YEREVAN. – We have a very good, democratic constitution, but we have happy rich and unhappy poor.

Constitution specialist Vardan Ayvazyan expressed such a view at a press conference on Tuesday, in connection with Constitution Day in Armenia.

“If a person is considered supreme value [pursuant to the Constitution of Armenia], he has to live with dignity in a country,” added Ayvazyan.

He noted that if a society is not a prosperous, the exercising of the remaining rights is derived from this.

In the constitution specialist’s words, it would be good if the Constitution of Armenia were to have a provision—just like the Swiss constitution—that if a nation wants to be powerful, it first needs to ensure the welfare of the weak.

Ayvazyan added that if the constitution of a country does not stipulate monitoring mechanisms for the accumulation of wealth, the economy of that country cannot serve its public.

As per the specialist, even though the present-day Constitution of Armenia is higher than the previous ones in qualitative aspects, there is a need for a state-level legal thinking to bring it to fruition.

“All state officials should have objective perceptions, not subjective (…), regarding the constitution and values,” he said.

As per Vardan Ayvazyan, Armenia also needs to have a civil society that can appropriate constitutional values.