{"id":186122,"date":"2025-09-20T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=186122"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:26:33","slug":"territorial-claims-in-armenias-constitution-must-be-removed-to-sign-peace-deal-says-azerbaijans-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/186122\/","title":{"rendered":"Territorial claims in Armenia\u2019s Constitution must be removed to sign peace deal, says Azerbaijan\u2019s foreign ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Following Azerbaijan&rsquo;s &ldquo;restoration of state sovereignty&rdquo; in 2023, efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified, according to a statement by Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry marking State Sovereignty Day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On Aug. 8, 2025, a historic meeting took place in Washington between the leaders of Azerbaijan, the United States, and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, the leaders signed a joint declaration. Azerbaijan and Armenia pre-signed the text of a peace treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, at the request of both Azerbaijan and Armenia, the OSCE Minsk process and related bodies&mdash;legacies of the former conflict&mdash;were dissolved by a decision of the OSCE Ministerial Council on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The outcomes of the Washington meeting once again reaffirmed Azerbaijan&rsquo;s proposed peace agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To seize this historic opportunity for peace and to conclude a peace agreement, it is essential to remove the territorial claims present in Armenia&rsquo;s Constitution,&rdquo; reads the statement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Azerbaijan&rsquo;s &ldquo;restoration of state sovereignty&rdquo; in 2023, efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified, according to a statement by Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry marking State Sovereignty Day. &ldquo;On Aug. 8, 2025, a historic meeting took place in Washington between the leaders of Azerbaijan, the United States, and Armenia. After the meeting, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":186085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186123,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186122\/revisions\/186123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}