Wednesday, September 13 2023 21:23

ArmInfo. The Parliament of Armenia has not ratified the Almaty Declaration of 1991, and, therefore, this document is not an integral part of the country's legislation for the RA. MP from the <Armenia>  opposition faction Artur Khachatryan stated on September 13 from the rostrum of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.

He noted that the country's highest legislative body ratified only  the Minsk Protocol. Khachatryan emphasized that Azerbaijan itself has  also not ratified the Almaty Declaration. The  MP  noted that the  question then becomes against this background, on what basis and on  whose initiative this document became the basis for resolving the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Arthur Khachatryan, based on existing  documents, stated that the prime minister was mistaken when in his  recent interview he said that the Alma- Ata Declaration, which  implies recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, has  been part of Armenian legislation since 1991.

In response, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that perhaps he  was not very accurate in his wording regarding Armenia's accession to  the Alma-Ata Declaration.

However, the declaration recorded the dissolution of the USSR and was  adopted in the context of the Bialowieza Accords. Pashinyan said that  from the very beginning the topic of the Alma-Ata Declaration was on  the agenda. In particular, he again referred to the statement of the  first President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, made  in December 1991, that Nagorno-Karabakh would be completely satisfied  with autonomy following the example of Russian autonomies.  Ter-Petrosyan noted that the Armenian side does not want anything  more. Pashinyan said that it was at the moment when the first  president voiced this idea that the Alma-Ata Declaration appeared on  the agenda of negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh.