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Asbarez (13 November 2024)

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday appeared to be rejecting Baku’s insistence that the Armenian Constitution be amended as a precondition for signing a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Speaking at parliament, Pashinyan cited two reasons for refraining from amending the constitution, saying that Baku’s demands, which have been voiced ad nauseam by President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, would deadlock the ongoing peace talks.

Pashinyan said another aspect for this move was the portions of the peace treaty that have been agreed upon between Baku and Yerevan include an article, which defines that the “parties cannot refer to their domestic legislation to justify the failure to implement the agreement.”

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