An opposition-drafted bill condemning the Shushi Declaration signed by Turkey and Azerbaijan has not been included in the agenda of the Armenian National Assembly because the ruling Civil Contract party did not participate in the vote.

Said declaration was signed by Turkey and Azerbaijan in Shushi, a Nagorno-Karabakh city that went under Azerbaijan's control during the war in fall 2020.

Gurgen Arsenyan from Civil Contract had said earlier that his party would not join the initiative, arguing that the government has already unveiled its position. According to him, the Foreign Ministry and the National Assembly "pursue a common foreign policy."

Seyran Ohanyan from the opposition Armenia bloc maintained on Tuesday, March 1 that the parliament's silence on the matter means the country "agrees to the defeat in the war initiated by the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem"