President of the Constitutional Court Arman Dilanyan confirmed that Armenia's Constitution contains no territorial claims—neither against Azerbaijan nor any other country.

Dilanyan emphasized that Azerbaijani officials' allegations that Armenia’s Constitution expresses territorial ambitions lack any legal basis. According to him, before the Constitution was submitted to a referendum, it underwent multiple legal assessments, including by international institutions, reports RFE/RL.

“Our Constitution, which was subject to various international reviews before it was adopted via referendum or even formalized as a document, underwent international legal scrutiny, including by the Venice Commission. I’m confident that had the Venice Commission—or other legal experts who worked on our Constitution—detected any such claims against any country's territorial integrity, they would have raised it,” said Dilanyan.

He underlined that international law clearly mandates respect for the territorial integrity and inviolability of state borders.

“No state can decide to adopt a legal document that directly encroaches—because even formulating such a claim equals direct encroachment—on another country's territorial integrity. That would violate the international legal order. And I am convinced our Constitution contains no such provision,” he added.

Dilanyan also noted that the preamble is not an integral part of the Declaration.

“A reference made in the preamble is not a full inclusion of the Declaration itself. That reference from the preamble to the Declaration does not mean the Declaration was entirely transferred into and became part of the Constitution,” he stated.

Azerbaijan continues to demand that Armenia remove the reference to the Declaration of Independence—which mentions the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia—from its Constitution before signing a potential peace treaty.

A few months ago, the Constitutional Court concluded, while reviewing the constitutionality of regulations for border delimitation commissions, that only those elements of the Declaration of Independence that are explicitly embedded in the Constitution have constitutional force.

Currently, Armenia’s Ministry of Justice is drafting a new Constitution, but the specific nature of potential changes remains unclear. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has stated his view that the new Constitution should not include a reference to the Declaration of Independence.