YEREVAN. – The Government of Armenia is against the proposal to set December 1 as a Reunification Day holiday.  

MPs Khosrov Harutyunyan, Artashes Geghamyan, and Hayk Babukhanyan have proposed a bill to mark December 1 as Reunification Day because during their joint session that was convened on December 1, 1989, the Supreme Council of Armenia and the National Council of Artsakh—that is, Karabakh—had declared the reunification of Armenian SSR and Artsakh.  

The Armenian MFA, however, has prepared a negative conclusion with respect to this bill, and this conclusion is submitted for approval during Thursday’s Cabinet meting. Pursuant to the conclusion, if this bill is passed, Azerbaijan will use it as an additional argument to substantiate its deconstructive position, and it will present the Karabakh issue not as a conflict between self-determined Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, but rather as a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan.