ArmInfo. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the decision of the Constitutional Court of Armenia on the Rome Statute.
<This topic is the subject of discussion during high-level contacts both in Moscow and in Yerevan. I do not consider it necessary to divulge the details of these contacts. We assume that this story will be settled in an allied and mutually acceptable way>, Zakharova said at a weekly briefing.
At the end of 2022, the RA government applied to the Constitutional Court on this issue. Appeal to this issue, according to the government, is connected with the opportunity to call Azerbaijan to account for the war crimes committed. The document was signed in 1998, but until today the Republic of Armenia has not ratified it, since the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia in 2004 recognized the obligations of the agreement as contradicting a number of provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia in force at that time.
On March 24, 2023, the RA Constitutional Court found the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to be in line with the fundamental law of the country. The decision of the court is final and comes into force from the moment of publication.
The ratification of the statute will put Armenia in a rather delicate position, since in this case Yerevan will have to join the decision of the International Criminal Court, on March 17 of this year, which issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.