The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia on Friday issued a statement regarding the statements made by Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on Thursday.

“The Republic of Armenia does not have any territorial claims toward any of its neighbors, including Azerbaijan.

The Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and the amendments to it are internal affairs of Armenia, and we consider the attempts by official Baku to intervene in the internal discussions in Armenia as a gross intervention into the internal affairs of the country.

At the same time, we believe that such rhetoric torpedoes the peace process and casts doubts on the sincerity of the leadership of Azerbaijan to achieve peace.

The negotiated peace agreement clearly states that the Parties recognize each other’s territorial integrity and do not have territorial claims against each other. There is also an agreed provision in the draft peace agreement that neither party may invoke its domestic legislation for not implementing its obligations under the peace agreement.

The signing of the agreement and the ratification through domestic procedures will lay down these principles finally in the agreement.

Accordingly, we believe that the clearest and most direct way to address all the concerns of the Parties is to sign the agreement, which will open the door to lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan is ripe enough for signing, and the Armenian side expresses its willingness to work constructively and intensively to complete and sign it within the next month,” the Armenian MFA noted in its statement.

At the meeting with the representatives of the Turkic countries' parliaments, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev had stated that if Armenia’s constitution is not amended, the signing of a peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku will be simply impossible.

Also, Aliyev had noted that Armenia has "territorial claims from Azerbaijan" according to a clause stipulated in its constitution, and this, according to him, is unacceptable.

Furthermore, he announced that they had proposed to the Armenian side that Azerbaijan and Armenia jointly petition to the OSCE to abolish its Minsk Group.