Yerevan: If Baku fails to ratify deal, it won't come into force

PanARMENIAN.Net - Deputy speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Ruben Rubinyan has said that should Azerbaijan fail to ratify the regulation of the border delimitation commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan the regulation will not come into force.

Rubinyan made the remarks in response to questions from the parliamentary opposition of the country Tuesday, October 22.

"If it (Azerbaijan - Ed.) doesn't ratify [the regulation], it won't come into force. What is the problem?” Rubinyan said.

According to him, if Armenia ratifies the regulation, but Azerbaijan does not, the agreement will be considered not to have been reached at all.

On September 26, Armenia’s Constitutional Court gave the green light for parliamentary ratification of a recent agreement with Azerbaijan supposedly laying out the principles of delineating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. The deal signed on August 30 involves “regulations” for joint activities of Armenian and Azerbaijani government commissions dealing with the border delimitation process. It says that the process will be based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration in which newly independent ex-Soviet republics recognized each other’s Soviet-era borders.