Top official denies link between Pashinyan’s constitutional amendments proposal and Aliyev demand

A top Armenian official on Thursday denied claims that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signaled the need for constitutional amendments because Azerbaijan has demanded it.

Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan told reporters that the issue of constitutional amendments has always been a domestic matter in Armenia and cannot be linked with any foreign process.

“We’ve been talking about constitutional amendments since 2020,” he said when asked whether PM Pashinyan’s statement has something to do with Azeri leader Ilham Aliyev’s demands for constitutional changes in Armenia. Aliyev has been falsely accusing Armenia of having territorial aspirations against his country enshrined in the constitution. PM Pashinyan has numerously said that Armenia doesn’t have territorial aspirations against any country. 

“The issue of constitutional changes in Armenia has always been a domestic process and it can’t be linked to any foreign process. It has been and will continue to be a domestic process,” Grigoryan added.