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ARMENIA TO ACQUIRE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT ROLE IN REGION AFTER OPENING BORDER WITH TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.01.2010 16:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ After ratification of Protocols and opening of
borders, Armenia will acquire an increasingly important role in the
region, according to Stepan Grigoryan, Head of Analytical Center for
Globalization and Regional Cooperation.
"Turkey is very much interested in the ratification of protocols since
following the August 2008 war the situation in the region changed,
making Turkey review its policy towards South Caucasian countries,"
he told Thursday a news conference in Yerevan.
At that, he noted that Armenia will assume a leading role, becoming
a transit route in South Caucasian countries' Euro-integration process.
The protocols, according to Armenian expert, will be very probably
ratified before April 24. "Before the ratification of the documents
and opening of Armenian-Turkish border, Armenia must prevent third
forces from linking Armenian-Turkish process with Nagorno Karabakh
issue," he stressed.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country's Organic Law.
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.01.2010 16:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ After ratification of Protocols and opening of
borders, Armenia will acquire an increasingly important role in the
region, according to Stepan Grigoryan, Head of Analytical Center for
Globalization and Regional Cooperation.
"Turkey is very much interested in the ratification of protocols since
following the August 2008 war the situation in the region changed,
making Turkey review its policy towards South Caucasian countries,"
he told Thursday a news conference in Yerevan.
At that, he noted that Armenia will assume a leading role, becoming
a transit route in South Caucasian countries' Euro-integration process.
The protocols, according to Armenian expert, will be very probably
ratified before April 24. "Before the ratification of the documents
and opening of Armenian-Turkish border, Armenia must prevent third
forces from linking Armenian-Turkish process with Nagorno Karabakh
issue," he stressed.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country's Organic Law.