ArmInfo. The Rome Statute has passed all internal procedures, including the decision of the Constitutional Court on its compliance with the provisions of the RA Constitution. Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly Vladimir Vardanyan stated on June 26 at a press conference.
He noted that the submission of international treaties for ratification to the country's parliament is the exclusive prerogative of the RA government. <The draft will be submitted to the National Assembly, which will take the final decision>, said the head of the commission.
Earlier, RA Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan noted that the submission of the document for ratification is a matter of weeks. "Earlier, the government apparatus said that we would send it in the near future. I think it's a matter of weeks," Minasyan said.
Armenia signed the Rome Statute on July 17, 1998, but did not ratify it, since the Constitutional Court in 2004 recognized the obligations of the treaty as contradicting a number of provisions of the Constitution that was in force at that time. At the end of 2022, the Armenian government applied to the Constitutional Court on the issue of verifying the constitutionality of the Rome Statute. Yerevan noted that the ratification of this document will allow initiating proceedings in the ICC against Azerbaijan for war crimes. On March 24, 2023, the RA Constitutional Court found Armenia's obligations under the Rome Statute of the ICC to be in line with the country's Basic Law. On March 17 this year, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan said that the possibility of arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin if he arrives in the country is absurd.