Author: Leila Tariverdieva
Speaking on Tuesday at a limited meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State in Moscow, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again tried to refute Baku’s words about territorial claims to Azerbaijan contained in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia. Pashinyan clearly confused the CIS platform with a meeting of the European Parliament or a PACE session, but such is the Armenian prime minister. He stated that the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia on the regulations of the state commissions on delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan means the absence of territorial claims against Azerbaijan in the country’s basic law. He did not forget to mention Yerevan’s readiness to sign the unfinished peace treaty.
We have repeatedly said that Pashinyan has assembled a very unprofessional team. The rally boys are not able to give practical advice, because none of them is sophisticated in politics, does not understand the intricacies of jurisprudence and, in general, does not know the materiel. The advice that is given to the Prime Minister and voiced by him is not thought out and is calculated on the fact that the other side also does not understand anything. An attempt to confuse the opponent’s head with loud phrases and beautiful words does not work in the case of Azerbaijan, because in Baku they know the materiel very well. And therefore, from the very beginning, no one here took seriously Pashinyan’s assurances that the Constitution of Armenia does not contain any claims to Azerbaijani lands, and if there are any, they can be easily covered up with a marker. We know that they exist, we know what is behind them. They will remain in force no matter what the Armenian prime minister says, and in the end they will again become a headache for our country.
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Perhaps Pashinyan really does not understand how powerful an explosive the preamble of the Armenian Constitution has placed under the region. Judging by the behavior of the Prime Minister of Armenia, it can be assumed that this frivolous politician does not actually realize that the main problem in the relations between the two countries is not resolved by one decision of the Constitutional Court regarding the delimitation commissions. This decision, even if it is constitutional, does not in any way eliminate the fact of territorial claims. The commission is a commission, and what is written in the Declaration of Independence and then translated into the preamble of the fundamental law is what will determine the policy of Armenia in the future.
Nikol does not understand, but there are those in Armenia who understand this. Judge of the Constitutional Court, ex-Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan expressed a special opinion on the latest decision on the Constitutional Court website.
He declared that the Constitutional Court did not have the authority to consider such an issue and make a decision on it. Let us omit Tovmasyan’s legal terminology so as not to confuse the reader. The ex-minister accused the Constitutional Court of “devaluing the normative significance of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia.” The Constitutional Court came to the conclusion that those provisions of the Declaration that were not reflected in the Constitution do not have any legal significance, which not only deprived it of the legal meaning and the historical significance of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia, but also turned it into a simply symbolic document, and the preamble of the Constitution in this part deprived of the basis for interpreting the provisions of the Constitution.” In contrast to this decision, Tovmasyan recalled the same situation regarding claims against Turkey. Having considered the issue, the Armenian Constitutional Court decided on January 12, 2010 that “the provisions of the protocol on the development of relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey in the law-making and law enforcement practice of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in interstate relations, cannot be interpreted and applied in a manner that would contradict the provisions of the preamble Constitution and the requirements of paragraph 11 of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia.”
Let us recall that paragraph 11 of this document reads: “The Republic of Armenia supports the cause of international recognition, the “Armenian genocide” (our quotation marks – ed.) of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia.”
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The decision of the Constitutional Court of 2010 states that no international treaties can be in conflict with the toxic clauses of the Declaration and, accordingly, the preamble of the Constitution. Armenia expects some miracles of good neighborliness from Turkey, while making it clear that it itself is not going to renounce its claims to Turkish territories and dividends from the imaginary “genocide”.
Absolutely the same situation occurs today. Yerevan and its guardians are pushing through with all their might the signing of an unfinished, crude peace treaty, knowing full well that this document will not create lasting peace, but will only help them solve their own problems. Neither the Armenians, nor the French, nor the Americans need real peace in the region. A guaranteed and reliable peace treaty will deprive the Armenians of hopes of seizing foreign territories, and the last two – of control over the region. This is the reason why there has been such feverish activity around the treaty today. Armenia’s Western patrons are trying to push through the issue and bring it to the point of signing a document on the sidelines of COP29. Thus turning the climate summit into a platform for political games. Baku is under intense pressure. It seems that everyone has forgotten about the environmental agenda itself and the climate conference in Azerbaijan is being held only for this purpose.
I would like to think that Nikol Pashinyan simply does not realize all this. Let us repeat: the behavior of the Armenian prime minister does not characterize him as a serious figure. He is a populist and a pocket prime minister for external actors who promised him something tasty. A line of behavior is dictated to him, he gets on his bike and rides without understanding the road. If he plays this game consciously, it means that he is an enemy and a criminal, pushing his people towards new bloodshed, and the Armenian statehood towards destruction. If Yerevan really wants peace, the preamble of the Armenian Constitution must be changed. And not as a favor to us, not by some unconstitutional decisions that can then be easily canceled. This must be done reliably and with full guarantees that in twenty years some maniac with a surname starting with “Yang” will not want to blow up the region again.
And one more thing – Azerbaijan will not wait these twenty years when the Armenians, having secured the support of the powers, again decide to open their mouths for someone else’s piece of the pie. And the day may come when Yerevan will beg to sign peace, but we will no longer need it.