Overview

• Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said Armenia does not accept some of Azerbaijan’s preconditions for finalizing the agreement.
• Baku insists Armenia amend its constitution over language linked to reunification with Nagorno-Karabakh, and President Ilham Aliyev has said peace is possible if the changes are made.
• Armenia maintains the peace text was paraphed in March and says it is ready to sign without new conditions.
• A Washington meeting in early August with President Trump and President Aliyev produced a declaration confirming the paraphed text and signaled cooperation on a corridor linking Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan through Armenia, dubbed the Trump Route.
• Armenia’s Constitutional Court in 2024 flagged parts of the 1990 Declaration of Independence as risking constitutional dualism, after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had called for a new constitution to avoid future conflict.