"No provision of the RA Constitution contains territorial claims towards neighboring countries." Pashinyan

“The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia noted in its decision of September 26, 2024, that the reference to the Declaration of Independence in the Preamble of the Constitution refers exclusively to those provisions of the Declaration that are enshrined in the articles of the Constitution.” Nikol Pashinyan wrote in X.

"The National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh, as a legally elected representative body by the people of Artsakh, addressed the world community and UN member states with a unanimously adopted message on July 27, 2023, calling on them to recognize the independence of the Republic of Artsakh for the sake of salvation (Remedial Recognition).

The member states of the UN Security Council and other international actors, despite their international obligations to protect the population from genocide (Responsibility to Protect), unfortunately showed absolute indifference to the warnings of the Message adopted by the Artsakh Parliament about the serious existential dangers threatening the population of Artsakh, and were unable or unwilling to properly impede the criminal actions of Azerbaijan when the latter carried out military aggression against Artsakh in September 2023 and occupied the entire territory of the Republic of Artsakh as a result of ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts.

Prior to the next military aggression against Artsakh, Azerbaijan, violating the provisions of the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, in particular point 6, had blocked the only road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, the internationally recognized extraterritorial Lachin corridor, for 10 months, making it impossible to deliver vital goods: food, baby food, and medicine, as well as ignoring the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights of December 21, 2022 and the UN International Court of Justice of February 22 and July 6, 2023 on the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor.

The unpunished behavior of the Azerbaijani military-political leadership is inspiring to others. The world is being plunged into new disasters every day, the price of which is the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Guided by the policy of forcibly incorporating Artsakh into its composition and the undisguised intention to completely eliminate the Armenian trace from that territory, Azerbaijan is currently consistently destroying or appropriating the historical and cultural values ​​created by the Armenian people over millennia, illegally populating Armenian villages and cities with centuries-old history, and continues to hold dozens of our compatriots, including the military-political leadership of the republic, hostage.

The only way to prevent this criminal inhuman policy and allow the citizens of Artsakh to return to their historical homeland is for the UN member states to recognize the independence of the Republic of Artsakh.

Until the international community recognizes the independence of the Republic of Artsakh and creates safe conditions for the return of the indigenous Armenian population to their historical homeland, it is necessary to stop the ongoing looting and barbaric destruction of Armenian cemeteries, churches, monasteries, and historical and cultural values, public and private property in the capital of Artsakh, Stepanakert, and other settlements through the relevant UN structures, while preserving the immovable and movable property forcibly abandoned by the population of Artsakh, as well as the inviolability of all state and community buildings, industrial enterprises, and commercial facilities.

The National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh, as the highest representative body endowed with a primary mandate, addresses the international community with a message and calls on the UN member states:

guided by the principle of the right of nations to self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter, taking as a basis the "Declaration on the Proclamation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" of September 2, 1991, the results of the national referendum on independence held on December 10, 1991, as well as the Declaration on the State Independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic adopted on January 6, 1992, to recognize the independence of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) for the sake of the return of the indigenous people of Artsakh to their historical homeland.

"The recognition of the independence of the Republic of Artsakh by the UN member states is the only way to restore historical justice, it will become a reliable guarantee of the protection of our people, will contribute to the dignified and safe return of 150 thousand Armenians to their historical Homeland within the already recognized international borders, the creation of favorable conditions for normal life in their historical places of residence, as well as will ensure long-term and stable peace in the South Caucasus region," the statement said.