Armenian government submitts Rome Statute to Parliament for  ratification

ArmInfo.The Armenian government today submitted the Rome Statute to the National Assembly  for ratification. ArmInfo was informed about this by the press service of the head of the government.

Armenia signed the Rome Statute (Treaty on the International Criminal  Court, ICC) 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.  Meanwhile, back in April of this year.  Deputy Speaker of the RA National Assembly Hakob Arshakyan stated  that Armenia has considered Russia's concerns regarding Yerevan's  plans to ratify the Rome Statute and can act without damaging the  strategic relations between the two countries. He reminded that the  Armenian government approved the draft law on the ratification of the  Rome Statute in December, and applied to the Constitutional Court for  review in January. The plans to recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC  are related to Yerevan's desire to hold Azerbaijan responsible for  its aggression against Armenia, which Grigory Minasyan, the head of  the RA Ministry of Justice, spoke about last year, Arshakyan said