{"id":246333,"date":"2026-03-23T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=246333"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:31:43","slug":"peace-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan-is-not-without-challenges-wounds-are-still-fresh-takeaways-from-ararat-mirzoyans-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/246333\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not without challenges, wounds are still fresh: Takeaways from Ararat Mirzoyan\u2019s speech"},"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>During a session of the Armenian Parliament&rsquo;s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said all infrastructures built, operated, or reactivated in Armenian territory under TRIPP will remain and function fully under Armenia&rsquo;s legal authority.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the main takeaways from Mirzoyan&rsquo;s speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not without challenges: after so much bloodshed, the wounds are still fresh, and there are individuals currently held in Baku.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiations on TRIPP are ongoing. A bilateral agreement between Armenia and the United States will establish TRIPP formally.<\/li>\n<li>We have a fairly dynamic and promising dialogue with Turkey, and processes are taking place on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Cooperation with the European Union has expanded in defense and security areas.<\/li>\n<li>Humanitarian aid has been sent from Armenia to Iran, primarily in the form of medicine. Mirzoyan stated there was no need to trumpet this.<\/li>\n<li>Armenia has stated both behind closed doors and publicly that its Constitution contains nothing problematic for Azerbaijan.<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan has not demanded any changes to the Armenian Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>It has been confirmed that Armenia and Azerbaijan have not negotiated and are not negotiating any constitutional changes. When we say we cannot discuss the Constitution with you, this is not a topic for Armenia-Azerbaijan negotiations. Azerbaijan responds: &ldquo;Very well, we are not negotiating or demanding it; it is your internal matter. But we inform you that as long as your Constitution has these provisions, we will not sign a deal.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a session of the Armenian Parliament&rsquo;s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said all infrastructures built, operated, or reactivated in Armenian territory under TRIPP will remain and function fully under Armenia&rsquo;s legal authority. Here are the main takeaways from Mirzoyan&rsquo;s speech: Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not without challenges: after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":246247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,95,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246333","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=246333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246337,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246333\/revisions\/246337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}