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'PROTOCOLS SIGNED BY SERZH SARGSYAN HAVE NO LEGAL FORCE': ARMAN MELIKIAN
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Sept 17 2009
Armenia
"The last presidential elections in Armenia can not be trusted, and any
document signed by Serzh Sargsyan cannot have legal force, which the
signature of legitimate authorities would have," Nagorno-Karabakh's
ex-Foreign Minister Arman Melikian stated during a press conference
today.
"Thus, I think no one in Armenia would take on the responsibility of
signing the Protocols," Melikian said.
According to him, there is an occasion, an opportunity, and pressure to
stir Armenian-Turkish relations. That is clear. How will the governing
authorities get out of that situation? Melikian asks.
It is that lack of legitimacy, according to Melikian, that propels
Sargsyan to begin the process of ratifying the Protocols, which is
generally absurd:
"That is the reason why he is trying to put responsibility on the
parliament, which is elected by the nation, and he is going to meet
with leaders of political parties...."
Noting that, in the case where the Kars Treaty is not announced void,
Armenia may become the political and economic attache of the most
powerful country in the region: a fate that Arman Melikian doesn't
wish for Armenia.
Tert
Sept 17 2009
Armenia
"The last presidential elections in Armenia can not be trusted, and any
document signed by Serzh Sargsyan cannot have legal force, which the
signature of legitimate authorities would have," Nagorno-Karabakh's
ex-Foreign Minister Arman Melikian stated during a press conference
today.
"Thus, I think no one in Armenia would take on the responsibility of
signing the Protocols," Melikian said.
According to him, there is an occasion, an opportunity, and pressure to
stir Armenian-Turkish relations. That is clear. How will the governing
authorities get out of that situation? Melikian asks.
It is that lack of legitimacy, according to Melikian, that propels
Sargsyan to begin the process of ratifying the Protocols, which is
generally absurd:
"That is the reason why he is trying to put responsibility on the
parliament, which is elected by the nation, and he is going to meet
with leaders of political parties...."
Noting that, in the case where the Kars Treaty is not announced void,
Armenia may become the political and economic attache of the most
powerful country in the region: a fate that Arman Melikian doesn't
wish for Armenia.