Armenia: Our constitution has nothing to worry about for Baku
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia announced that there is no clause in the constitution of this coury that is of concern to the Republic of Azerbaijan and added that Yerevan does not consider such an issue to be part of the agenda of peace talks with Baku.
According to RCO News Agency, Ararat Mirzoyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, on Wednesday, in response to a question at an iernational conference in Yerevan focusing on peace and multilateral cooperation, emphasized that the Constitution of Armenia does not coain any articles that cause concern to Baku.
Mirzoyan said: “We do not accept the notion that there is something in our constitution that is problematic for the Republic of Azerbaijan. Therefore, this issue is not part of the agenda of the negotiations and we will not discuss it.”
He added: “Peace has been established and a series of agreemes have been signed. Of course, there are still cases in which the two couries disagree, and this is one of those cases.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia also stated that the two couries do not even have an agreeme on including their own constitution in the negotiation process, and from Yerevan’s poi of view, the constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan also includes items that can be considered a threat to the territorial iegrity of Armenia.
Mirzoyan reminded that Armenia has publicly announced its ieion to amend its constitution since 2018 and emphasized that this is a purely iernal issue. He said: “This issue is related to the Armenian section of this hall; First of all, it is part of our iernal agenda and maybe it can be discussed only in this framework.
Baku has repeatedly asked Yerevan to remove the preamble of its constitution, which refers to the “1990 Declaration of Independence”. In that declaration, the resolution of 1989 was meioned, in which the parliames of Soviet Armenia and the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the territory of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan decided to unite.
The Preside of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and other officials of the coury have repeated this demand several times after Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a peace agreeme in the White House of Washington on August 8 with the mediation of the Preside of the United States Donald Trump.
Despite Yerevan’s refusal to raise this issue as a precondition for negotiations, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has effectively promised to make the necessary changes as part of his governme’s policy to achieve lasting peace with neighboring couries. According to Armenian law, the only legal way to make this change is to approve a new constitution through a national referendum.
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