RA Constitutional Court ruled Armenia`s Constitution contains no  territorial claims against neighboring countries - Nikol Pashinyan 

ArmInfo.  Back in 2024, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia ruled that the country's Constitution contains no territorial claims against  neighboring countries.  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on  October 29 during a discussion entitled "At the Crossroads of  Leadership" at the VIII Paris Peace Forum. He was responding to a  question about whether the reference to the Declaration of  Independence in the Republic of Armenia's Constitution, which  mentions the resolution on the reunification of the Armenian SSR and  Nagorno-Karabakh, was a hindrance, and whether Armenia intended to  revise this provision.

Pashinyan acknowledged that Azerbaijan regularly raises this issue.  However, the country's highest judicial body, the Constitutional  Court of the Republic of Armenia, ruled out the presence of  territorial claims in the country's Basic Law. Moreover, the text of  the draft agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan contains numerous  provisions stating that the parties have no such claims against each  other and renounce them in the future. "The initialed peace agreement  already addresses all possible issues, all obvious topics. That is,  the problem you mentioned doesn't exist. Therefore, even if there may  be assumptions or allegations, the peace agreement addresses all  issues. The best solution to resolve all issues is simply to conclude  and ratify the peace treaty, after which it will acquire the highest  legal force and leave no room for other interpretations," Nikol  Pashinyan concluded.

It should be noted that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev insists on  amending the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, without which  "the conclusion of a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan will be  impossible." In this regard, when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  declared in early 2024 that Armenia needed a new Constitution that  would "make the Republic of Armenia more viable in the new  geopolitical conditions," the Prime Minister's counterparts claimed  the initiative originated in Baku, primarily with the goal of  removing references to the Declaration of Independence, which  mentions the resolution on the reunification of the Armenian SSR and  Nagorno-Karabakh, from the Constitution. In May of this year,  Pashinyan expressed the opinion that the text of the declaration does  not presuppose the existence of an independent state of Armenia.  "This is simply impossible... I can say that the new Constitution of  Armenia should not contain references to the Declaration of  Independence. But it is up to the people of Armenia to decide," the  Prime Minister assured.