ArmInfo. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, signed by Armenia on July 17, 1998, complies with the Constitution of Armenia. On March 24, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia issued a corresponding verdict.
The decision of the Court is final and comes into force from the moment of publication. At the end of 2022, the government of the Republic of Armenia applied to the Constitutional Court on this issue. Appeal to this issue, according to the government, is connected with the opportunity to call Azerbaijan to account for the war crimes committed. The document was signed in 1998, but until today the Republic of Armenia has not ratified it, since the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia in 2004 recognized the obligations of the agreement as contradicting a number of provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia in force at that time.
However, the ratification of the statute will put Armenia in a rather delicate position, since in this case Yerevan will have to join the decision of the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 17.