Armenian state information company Armenpress reported Friday that the nation’s parliament will take into account ratifying the Rome Statute.
The Rome Statute of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) is the treaty that established the ICC. Armenia signed the Rome Statute in October 1999 however has not ratified it. In 2004, Armenia’s Constitutional Courtroom discovered that the Rome Statute didn’t adjust to the nation’s 1995 structure. Nonetheless, in December 2022, Armenia took steps to ratify the Rome Statute anyway. The following month, the Constitutional Courtroom took up the case for consideration, and in March 2023, the court docket found the Rome Statute was in compliance with the newly amended Armenian Constitution.
Armenian Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan said it was essential to ratify the Rome Statute on account of what he calls navy aggression by neighboring nation Azerbaijan.
Minasyan acknowledged that the Rome Statute should be ratified as a result of “the chance of latest Azerbaijani navy aggression in opposition to Armenia stays excessive” and “the Azeri crimes, together with conflict crimes dedicated in Armenia” being topic to the jurisdiction of the ICC could be a “preventative and restraining measure in opposition to Azerbaijan.” Azerbaijan has not signed or ratified the Rome Statute.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been concerned in a violent dispute over the area of Nagorno-Karabakh (additionally known as Artsakh), an ethnically Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan internationally acknowledged as being Azerbaijan’s territory. The border between Armenia and Azerbaijan was established in the course of the dissolution of the USSR. Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence from Azerbaijan because the Republic of Artsakh in September 1991 on account of what it known as “apartheid and discrimination” by the Azerbaijani authorities. Artsakh is acknowledged by some US states as an impartial nation although it isn’t acknowledged by the US federal authorities.
A letter by Azerbaijan’s consultant to the UN described Armenia as unleashing “full-scale conflict” in opposition to Azerbaijan in 1992. The UN Safety Council condemned the battle over Nagorno-Karabakh however resolved to stay “actively seized” of the matter. Following the battle within the Nineties, Azerbaijan exercised its “inherent proper to self-defense” in September 2020, taking greater than 300 settlements from Artsakh, which claimed the lives of at the least 7,272 troopers.
Whereas each nations had agreed to a ceasefire after the 2020 battle, Azerbaijan invaded Armenia in September 2022. Reuters reported that the September 2022 battle led to a ceasefire, however on Friday, Armenia’s Ministry of International Affairs reported that Azerbaijan opened fireplace on Armenian armed forces, killing three.
The transfer to ratify the Rome Statute means Russian President Vladimir Putin wouldn’t be allowed into the nation as Armenian forces could be required to detain him. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, who helped dealer the 2020 ceasefire between the 2 formerly-Soviet nations, in March.
