Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a message on RA Constitution Day.

"Dear people, dear compatriots,

On July 5, we celebrate Constitution Day, central to our state calendar.

September 21 expresses our will and determination to have an independent state and is essentially our state's birthday, while July 5 is about what our state is or should be.

The Constitution is about the general and strategic ideas about the state, the functioning of the critical mechanisms of the state, and the rights and responsibilities of a person and a citizen.

The Constitution is about the relations of all people, organizations, and state structures, and the activities of any individual, group, organization, and structure in the country cannot contradict the Constitution. Hence the word limit/situation. It shows the limit of permissible state and individual activity.

According to the current Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, state institutions have the right to do what they are allowed by the Constitution and laws; a person has the right to do what does not contradict the Constitution and laws; that is, it is not prohibited. In our country, the legal system is based on this principle, and let me say, today, our reality is based on this principle. That reality is certainly not ideal. But today, all political and economic rights are available to all people as befits a democratic country. This result is no longer seen because it has become commonplace, and that it has become commonplace is perhaps the most significant result.

Our most significant challenges in ensuring constitutional reality remain external security (peace and external borders) and an unquestionably credible judiciary. Reliable for everyone. Both the Government, the opposition, and the public.

We have significant progress in the judicial system, expressed as follows. Today, no innocent person can be convicted, arrested, or detained unnecessarily. Today, no one can consider himself above the law. All people are truly equal before the law.

Another thing is that the judicial system only sometimes responds to cases of offenses with due speed and efficiency. Many trials of public and state significance, sometimes for objective, sometimes subjective reasons, continue for years, causing justifiable public bewilderment. We are also witnessing puzzling events in the field of civil and administrative legal relations.

But our determination to reform the judicial system has remained strong. Reforms are proceeding slowly but steadily because that is the only guaranteed way to achieve results.

Our problems in the field of external security are known to all of you, and here we have serious challenges. At the same time, I am convinced that the peace agenda adopted by the Government has no alternative because peace is the most reliable factor of our sovereignty and security.

The realization of the peace agenda is not guaranteed because it is not up to us alone, but that we must make every legitimate effort to achieve peace is also evident and unmistakable. In this sense, proper mechanisms to address the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the recognition of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, 29,800 square kilometers, are essential.

According to the Constitution of our country, Armenia is a social state. It is important to emphasize that tremendous changes have occurred in RA's social sphere. Since 2018, the minimum pension has more than doubled, the average pension has increased by 22 percent, and the basic pension has increased by 50 percent. Since 2018, 170,000 jobs have been created in Armenia, the wage fund has more than doubled, the average monthly salary has increased by about 57 percent, the minimum wage has increased by more than 36 percent, and the number of health services provided to citizens by state order has doubled.

The main goal of our policies in social and other spheres is human well-being and happiness, which, even in the most challenging moment, we should not lose as a guideline.

Dear people,

Read the RA Constitution. It is not a long but meaningful document, the reading of which is helpful for everyone because, in many cases, citizens need help with their rights.

I congratulate all of us on the occasion of the Constitution Day."