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    ARMENIAN FM: WHY DID WE SIGN TWO PROTOCOLS IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO RATIFY AND IMPLEMENT THEM?

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/
    02.11.2009 10:54 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia's foreign minister has rejected Turkish
    calls for concessions in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in exchange
    for the historic rapprochement between Yerevan and Ankara.

    Speaking to Reuters late on Friday, Edward Nalbandian said negotiations
    between Turkey and Armenia were over and both sides were obliged to
    move quickly to establish diplomatic relations and open their border
    under accords signed this month.

    "Why did we sign two protocols if we are not going to ratify and
    implement them?" Nalbandian, 53, said in an interview in the Armenian
    capital, Yerevan.

    "I think the whole international community is waiting for quick
    ratification and implementation and respect for the agreements which
    are in the protocols," he said.

    "If one of the sides will delay and create some obstacles in the
    way of ratification and implementation, I think it could bear all
    the responsibility for the negative consequences." Nalbandian said
    the Armenian-Turkish thaw and the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations were
    "two separate processes."

    "This is not only the Armenian approach but the approach of the
    international community," he said, adding that negotiations between
    Turkey and Armenia were over. "Negotiations were finalised at the
    beginning of February."

    Mediators from the United States, Russia and France say they are making
    progress towards a peace deal on Nagorno-Karabakh in talks between
    Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev.

    But Nalbandian played down talk of an imminent breakthrough. There
    is a "positive dynamic", he said. "But to say that tomorrow or in
    one month's time or in a very short period of time we will come to
    the agreement, I don't think this is very serious."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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