Armenia's justice minister reaffirmed draft constitution will be complete by March

Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian reaffirmed on Wednesday her pledge to have a new Armenian constitution, demanded by Azerbaijan, drafted before the end of next month. A change of Armenia’s existing constitution is Azerbaijan’s main precondition for signing an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty initialed in Washington in August. While publicly rejecting this precondition, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has pledged to enact a new constitution. He said in September that it will be put on a referendum after Armenia’s next general elections due in June. [ . . . ] Galian indicated that the new constitution, which is being drafted by her ministry, will be made public before such approval. “When I said that the text will be ready [in March] I never meant that the Council will have approved it,” the minister told a news conference. “We will not deviate from the deadlines that we have repeatedly spoken about, and March remains the month for concluding our work,” she said. “That is, in March we will already have a text that will be published.”
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