President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio touched upon the Commission’s cooperation with Armenia while presenting the 2019 report on the activities of the Commission to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers. This is what Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan posted on his Facebook page.

Badasyan particularly stated the following: Mr. Buquicchio particularly stated that in two member states, Armenia and Moldova, an oligarchic regime has been overthrown. ‘We [the Commission] are accompanying both countries in their efforts to renew their democratic system. One of the main challenges, especially for the Armenian but also the Moldovan authorities, is to find the right balance between, on the one hand, the need for meeting the expectations of the people and for real change in the country, and, on the other, the requirements of legal stability and to maintain rule of law standards. Now, at our session of this week, we intend to adopt ten often quite complex and sensitive opinions,’ Mr. Buquicchio said, particularly stating that these opinions concern the media legislation and the appointment of constitutional court judges in Albania, the reform of the constitutional court and the crime of overthrowing the constitutional order in Armenia.”