Armenia has announced on the highest level its readiness to consider the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. This was told to Armenpress by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, Ani Badalyan—and referring to the statement by the Azerbaijani MFA spokesperson, spoke about the need for dissolving the OSCE Minsk Group and constitutional amendments in Armenia.

“Armenia simply wants to make sure that this would mean the de facto and de jure end to the conflict and not its shift to the territory of the Republic of Armenia under the narrative of the so-called ‘Western Azerbaijan.’

Regarding the Armenian Constitution, the 26 September 2024 ruling of the Armenian Constitutional Court made it obvious that the Armenian Constitution doesn’t contain any territorial claims against any country. On the contrary, the Republic of Armenia believes that it is Azerbaijan’s Constitution that contains territorial claims against Armenia.

But we also believe that the finalized text of the peace treaty solves this issue. Why? Because the finalized text stipulates that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other’s territorial integrity within the borders of the USSR republics, don’t have territorial claims against each other and are bound to not make such claims in the future.

Besides, the text of the agreement underscores that the parties cannot cite their domestic legislation for failure to fulfill the terms of the agreement. As a reminder, article 5 of the Armenian constitution stipulates ‘in case of conflict between the norms of international treaties ratified by the Republic of Armenia and those of laws, the norms of international treaties shall apply’, i.e., the Armenian Constitution cannot be cited as an obstacle for not signing the peace agreement.

On the contrary, the signing of the peace agreement is even the most effective way to address the concerns pertaining to the Constitution,” added the spokesperson for the Armenian MFA.