ArmInfo. The Armenian government does not publish the text of the peace treaty for a very simple reason: the agreement has two owners - Armenia and Azerbaijan, as stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in an interview with PTA. According to the Prime Minister, there are forces that need excuses for this document not to be signed, and unilateral publication of that paper could add some weight to the scale of those excuses.
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To the question of whether the possibility of publishing the document is being discussed with Azerbaijan, Pashinyan replied: In other words, he said, Yerevan is
Let us recall that back in September 2024, Hayastan faction MP Artur Khachatryan stated in parliament that a number of MPs from the opposition NA faction were allowed to familiarize themselves with the 7th and 8th editions of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan,. However, after there was a fuss in Azerbaijan that , they were denied access. MP Gegham Manukyan, in turn, admitted that access was restricted due to the fact that the opposition raised concerns about certain points that were controversial for the Republic of Armenia, in particular, Baku's demands to remove the reference to the Declaration of Independence from the preamble of the Constitutional Court of Armenia. "He prohibited it - and he did a good thing," Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to opposition MP Artsvik Minasyan on October 2 in parliament during the government hour. According to Pashinyan, he had granted access to the document for parliamentarians based on his personal decision. However, after seeing various MPs using information for on social networks, he decided to block access. The legal basis for this decision, Pashinyan noted, is that he is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan concluded.
In early December, MPs of the opposition parliamentary faction Hayastan, Kristine Vardanyan, Anna Grigoryan, Gegham Manukyan and Artur Khachatryan, filed a joint lawsuit against the government and the Foreign Ministry. The parliamentarians demand that the order issued by Armenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2024, which prohibited them from accessing the draft peace treaty being negotiated with Azerbaijan, be declared illegal.