Armenia legislature rejects text of statement on new document on Armenian-Azerbaijani border

After a long discussion during today’s special session of the National Assembly of Armenia, the text of the statement by the National Assembly was put up for a vote, but wasn’t adopted.

Before the vote, leader of the My Step faction of the National Assembly Lilit Makunts declared the following: “Vladimir Vardanyan from the My Step faction and Taron Simonyan from the opposition Bright Armenia faction held discussions on the text of the statement, and the My Step faction made substantive proposals. Since it was impossible to find a common denominator in regard to the text, the My Step faction will boycott the vote.”

Only 25 MPs voted in favor of the text of the statement.

As reported earlier, the National Assembly had convened a special session initiated by the opposition Bright Armenia faction, along with the opposition Prosperous Armenia faction. The possible signing of the new alleged document on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is on the agenda.

The factions had submitted the draft statement of the National Assembly titled “The actions being taken by the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the situation created as a result of violation of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia and the use of force against the Republic of Armenia”.

Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday he is negotiating a new document with Azerbaijan and Russia.

The paper was first published by Armenia’s former ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan. According to the latter, Pashinyan was going to sign a new agreement that would damage the interests of the country.

The acting PM also noted that Armenia has reached some agreements with its international colleagues. According to him, those solutions are 100% in line with the interests of Armenia.

Pashinyan added that he would not publish the document to be signed because it was not correct to publish a working document.