YEREVAN, MARCH 30, ARMENPRESS. The transition into parliamentary system in Armenia will contribute to increasing the level of defense capability of the country, Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan told Russian reporters, reports Armenpress.

“The parliamentary governance model will also have a key significance in crisis situations, in those situations when the majority of the Parliament must make decisions on the necessary changes in the budget, other major legislative acts that are dictated by the situation development”, he said.

The Minister added that the parliamentary governance system works in many countries and works very effectively. “It is expected that the upcoming majority in the Parliament will be a stable majority which will have a chance to form a government that will in its turn be responsible for increasing the country’s defensibility, the national security. In a state of war the Prime Minister takes over the duties of the Commander-in-Chief”, Vigen Sargsyan said.

Asked to what extent the new governance model will have an influence on Armenia’s mutual partnership with the CSTO member states, the Minister said all problems that will emerge while making decisions will be quickly solved. “I don’t see any major problem for Armenia’s mutual cooperation with the CSTO member states within the frames of the organization in connection with the transition to new governance model”, the Defense Minister said.