Friday, June 7 2024 23:22

ArmInfo.Armenia is taking similar steps with regard to the OSCE Minsk Group, the need for which will no longer be necessary after the signing of the peace treaty, Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan told reporters on the sidelines of the National Assembly of Armenia, answering a question about the attitude of the Armenian leadership to the statement of the head of Azerbaijan about the need for steps to liquidate the OSCE Minsk Group.

"The fate of the Minsk Group will have to be decided after the  signing of the peace agreement, since after it the meaning of the  work of the OSCE Minsk Group is lost," Simonyan said, emphasizing  that he cannot understand the position of Ilham Aliyev, who is  starting to attack the peace process precisely when the negotiating  parties are approaching common positions.

In this aspect, Simonyan also commented on the demands of official  Baku to change the Constitution of Armenia. "As for the constitution,  I can only repeat the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Our Constitution is our internal matter, we have been talking about  the Constitution for a long time, but not in this context, but in a  more global one, and we saw the need for changes immediately after  2018," the speaker said, noting the presence of a direct connection  between the rhetoric of Baku and the protest movement in Armenia. "I  see a direct connection and I am very sorry that this movement, which  we see on the streets, needs such statements as a mill in water. All  this is a consequence of these "street excursions" - a direct  connection between the movement and what Aliyev says.

According to Simonyan, taking advantage of internal political events  in Armenia, Azerbaijan is trying to weaken Yerevan's negotiating  position. "This is all regulated from one center, the place that is  burning with the desire to change power in the Republic of Armenia,  where support for aggression against the sovereign territory of  Armenia came from, where people are called to rallies," Simonyan  said, without specifying what he meant, and emphasizing that his  words are a purely political statement, without facts.

Official Baku has repeatedly expressed itself in the manner that  Armenia needs to change its Constitution, which allegedly contains  territorial claims against Azerbaijan. RA Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan also spoke in this vein more than once. The RA Ministry of  Foreign Affairs called this process an internal matter of the  Republic of Armenia.