On October 22, Gagik Harutyunyan, President of the Constitutional Court, member of the Bureau of Commission the Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe, participated in the Venice Commission's Bureau session, where the issues of organization of the Commission's 104th plenary session, as well as, the issues of amending the Constitution of Ukraine were discussed.
On October 23, Mr. Harutyunyan took part at the 104th plenary session of the Venice Commission, which approved the Preliminary Opinion on the draft Amendments, in particular, to Chapters 1 to 7 and 10 and the Second Preliminary Opinion to Chapters 8, 9 and 11 to16, of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia drawn up on the basis of the comments of members of the Commission S.Bartole, A.Endzins, C.Grabenwarter, T.Khabrieva, E. Tanchev, K. Tuorii.
Regarding the issue of constitutional amendments, the members of the Commission T. Khabrieva, E. Tanchev, S. Bartole and A. Endzins highly appreciated the proposed constitutional amendments, describing them as a document which is in conformity with the international democratic standards.
The plenary session of the Venice Commission, which was attended by the representatives of sixty countries, unanimously approved the opinions of the expert group.
Galust Sahakyan, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, informed on progress in the adoption of the constitutional Amendments.
Tomorrow, 24 October the plenary session of the Venice Commission will continue its work.