On 24 March, the Constitutional Court published the decision on determining the compliance with the Constitution of the obligations stipulated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, signed on 17 July, 1998.

According to the decision of the High Court, the Rome Statute corresponds to the RA Constitution. During the publication of the decision, the President of the CC Arman Dilanyan announced that judges Hrayr Tovmasyan, Araik Tunyan and Yervand Khundkaryan presented special opinion.

Let’s remind that, as early as December 2022, Armenia started a process to approve the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, signed in 1998, but not yet ratified it. In August 2004, the Constitutional Court of Armenia recognized this document as contradicting the Constitution in force at that time.

In 2022, the Government once again sent the charter to the Supreme Court for approval. Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan expressed his opinion that the Court may not have an objection now, because the Constitution of Armenia has been amended twice since 1995. “Taking into account the scope and depth of the two constitutional amendments, it is necessary to clarify whether the position of the Constitutional Court has not been changed in the light of the constitutional amendments.”
The Government has again returned to the question of recognizing the Rome Statute, because, according to the justification of the draft, Armenia sees an opportunity to call Azerbaijan to responsibility. Starting from May 2021, the armed forces of Azerbaijan carried out military aggression against Armenia, committed war crimes; the text of justification said.

The International Criminal Court examines the cases of genocide, military crimes, crimes against humanity, prosecutes the persons responsible for military aggression.
In the South Caucasus, only Georgia has approved the Statute of the Court, it has been ratified by 123 countries in the world.