{"id":311547,"date":"2026-11-06T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=311547"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:15:19","slug":"is-aliyevs-demand-behind-armenias-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/reports\/311547\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Aliyev\u2019s demand behind Armenia\u2019s new Constitution?"},"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>Armenia&rsquo;s government is talking about adopting a new Constitution, although the draft text has yet to be made public. The only confirmed detail so far is that it will not contain a reference to the Declaration of Independence. Why is the government taking this step, and what does the process have to do with the demands made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev?<\/p>\n<p>This report introduces statements by the authorities, the opposition, and Aliyev himself.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1329;&#1388;&#1387;&#1415;&#1387; &#1402;&#1377;&#1392;&#1377;&#1374;&#1398;&#1403;&#1398; &#1383; &#1344;&#1377;&#1397;&#1377;&#1405;&#1407;&#1377;&#1398;&#1387; &#1398;&#1400;&#1408; &#1357;&#1377;&#1392;&#1396;&#1377;&#1398;&#1377;&#1380;&#1408;&#1400;&#1410;&#1385;&#1397;&#1377;&#1398; &#1392;&#1387;&#1396;&#1412;&#1400;&#1410;&#1396;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GmlTtl6obrE?start=4&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&rsquo;s government is talking about adopting a new Constitution, although the draft text has yet to be made public. The only confirmed detail so far is that it will not contain a reference to the Declaration of Independence. Why is the government taking this step, and what does the process have to do with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":311251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311548,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547\/revisions\/311548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}