Opposition sues Armenian government and MFA over blocked access to Azerbaijan agreement

YEREVAN, December 2. /ARKA/. Four MPs from the opposition bloc "Armenia" have filed a lawsuit against the Armenian government and the Foreign Ministry over the ban on access to the draft peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku.

The plaintiffs are deputies Kristine Vardanyan, Anna Grigoryan, Gegham Manukyan, and Artur Khachatryan.

"We have demanded that the decision of the Armenian Foreign Minister from March 14, 2024, which prohibited us from reviewing the draft treaty with Azerbaijan under discussion, be declared unlawful. Judge Robert Makeyan has accepted the case. A preliminary court hearing has been scheduled for January 14, 2025," Vardanyan wrote on Facebook.

The MP emphasized that she and her fellow party members are determined to have this arbitrary decision overturned and to restore the right of parliamentarians to access a 'document that is of critical importance to the public.

Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that he personally instructed the head of the Foreign Ministry not to show the text of the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement to the opposition in order to prevent potential speculation.