Armenian legislation not specifies timeline for Turkey-Armenia protocols' ratification

Armenian expert says after the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia ruled that the Protocols correspond to the Constitution, the Armenian President is expected to send them to the National Assembly for discussion.

It turns out that the country's legislation, as well as the Constitution, doesn’t specify a timeline for sending the Protocols to parliament.

“Such timelines are outlined neither by the laws or by the Armenian Constitution. Inter-parliamentary relations are more so dependent on political expediency and there’s no legal demand here," said Constitution expert Vardan Poghosyan.

According to Poghosyan, the Constitution doesn’t define not only the deadline in sending the Protocols to parliament, but also the deadline for them to be discussed in parliament.

“It's that way in the rest of the world; the situation is the same in Turkey’s legislation [with respect to a lack of a deadline]," added the expert.

/Tert.am/