Shahgeldyan: We Aim at Making Importance of Constitutional Reforms Comprehensible to Society

PanARMENIAN.Net - Coordinator of the Coordination Council for arranging for the referendum on constitutional changes Mher Shahgeldyan stated the propaganda campaign aims at presenting the need for constitutional changes to the society in a manner that is easy to understand. «Our goal is to inform the society on the changes, present the importance of those changes for further development of our country in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, while making efforts to hold a fair and transparent referendum,» he stated. Working groups are formed within the Coordination Council: propaganda, press and technical ones. As of political positions, constitutional changes are necessary to Armenia to strengthen democracy and develop the political structure, Shahgeldyan remarked. In his words, the international community - the Council of Europe, OSCE, EU and US - have positively assessed these changes.



«Today Armenia needs to come to a common consensus. Over 20 political parties, 100 NGOs, intelligentsia have expressed positive opinions over the draft changes,» Shahgeldyan reported. When answering a question, whether the opportunities for cooperation with the opposition are used up and whether the Council is ready to opposition anti-propaganda, Mr. Shahgeldyan said the work of the Coordination Council is aimed at the positive outcome of the referendum and not against a political force. Just owing to that any political force can have its political stand over the draft constitutional changes and present the its stance to the society.