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    ANKARA DOES NOT REJECT ITS SIGNATURE UNDER PROTOCOLS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.04.2010 16:31 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Official representative of the Turkish government,
    State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said Turkey does
    not reject its signature put under the Protocols on normalization of
    the Armenian-Turkish relations. "If the process is sabotaged, Ankara
    will not be guilty for it. The entire world shall understand that there
    will be no Turkey's guilt in it. The Armenian Constitutional Court's
    decision has become one of basic factors decelerating the process,"
    CNN Turk quoted him as saying.

    The Protocols on normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations
    were signed on October 10, 2009, in Zurich by RA Minister of Foreign
    Affairs Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu
    in presence of Foreign Affairs Ministers of France, US, Russia and
    Switzerland, which has been a mediator in the Armenian-Turkish
    negotiations since 2007. According to the documents, diplomatic
    relations shall be established between the two countries, and the
    Turkish-Armenian border closed in 1993 shall be opened. On January
    12, 2010, Armenia's Constitutional Court (CC) declared the Protocols
    conforming to the RA Constitution. There are not any preconditions
    in the CC conclusion, since it contradicts to the established rule
    of verdict returning. The CC verdict reads: the Armenian-Turkish
    Protocols on normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations are in
    compliance with the RA Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

    The Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry officially commented on the
    RA Constitutional Court's decision with respect to the Protocols on
    normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. "On January 12, 2010,
    the RA Constitutional court declared its decision of constitutional
    conformity on the protocols signed on October 10, 2009, in Zurich. It
    was published with a short statement. The decision undermines the very
    reason for negotiating these Protocols as well as their fundamental
    objective. This approach cannot be accepted on our part," the Turkish
    Foreign Affairs Ministry's statement reads.
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