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  • ANKARA: Bahceli: Protocol With Armenia An Unusual Diplomatic Move

    BAHCELI: PROTOCOL WITH ARMENIA AN UNUSUAL DIPLOMATIC MOVE

    Today's Zaman
    Sept 4 2009
    Turkey

    Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli harshly
    criticized the government's Armenian initiative in a written statement
    he issued on Thursday. Accusing the government of yielding to Armenian
    demands, Bahceli said "the domestic political consultation process is
    an oddity with no precedent in diplomacy." He argued that Parliament
    has no power to modify the protocols but rather "approve or reject it
    altogether." He further pointed out that the government has negotiated
    and accepted the protocols and showed its will to be bound by them
    under domestic law by initialing them, making it no longer possible
    to amend the protocols. "Their referral to Parliament for signatures
    and ratification is the final stage under the Constitution. In this
    regard, the prime minister's comments that the protocols will not be
    functional without Parliament's approval are nothing but a statement of
    the obvious and intend to create confusion in the minds and distract
    attention from the shame. Parliament has no power to modify the
    protocols. It will either approve or reject them," he said. Ankara
    Today's Zaman
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