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ARMENIA PROTOCOLS 'EXPIRE' IN TURKISH PARLIAMENT
news.az
Aug 23, 2011
Azerbaijan
Two protocols on rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey are among
898 pieces of legislation that have fallen off the Turkish parliament's
agenda.
The term of the protocols in the Grand National Assembly has expired,
according to Turkish newspaper Merhaba Gazetesi.
Legislation which has not been approved during the term of the National
Assembly automatically expires. The new parliament, which took office
last month, has not placed a vote on the protocols on its agenda.
Turkish law, however, does allow for a bill to be restored to the
agenda at the request of the government or members of parliament,
Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey and Armenia signed the two protocols on normalizing relations
in October 2009, but rapprochement stalled in 2010 when both the
Turkish and Armenian parliaments refused to ratify the protocols.
On 22 April 2010 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan suspended the
ratification process, accusing Turkey of placing conditions on
ratification.
The Turkish leadership has said several times that normalization is
possible only when Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied
Azerbaijani land of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts.
Meanwhile, Armenian nationalist politician Giro Manoyan, head of the
central Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office and a member of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, has accused Turkey of not
taking the protocols seriously.
"The last Turkish parliament did nothing on these protocols. Turkey
strongly indicated that it was not satisfied with the normalization
of Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions. Moreover, it
openly stated that normalization as such will not take place until
the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Manoyan told News.am
on 22 August.
He accused the Turkish side of not even complying with the required
procedures on the protocols.
Manoyan said the position of the Armenian authorities was humiliating,
as they were waiting for Turkey to ratify the protocols. He said that
that Turkey would probably put the protocols back on the agenda later.
news.az
Aug 23, 2011
Azerbaijan
Two protocols on rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey are among
898 pieces of legislation that have fallen off the Turkish parliament's
agenda.
The term of the protocols in the Grand National Assembly has expired,
according to Turkish newspaper Merhaba Gazetesi.
Legislation which has not been approved during the term of the National
Assembly automatically expires. The new parliament, which took office
last month, has not placed a vote on the protocols on its agenda.
Turkish law, however, does allow for a bill to be restored to the
agenda at the request of the government or members of parliament,
Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey and Armenia signed the two protocols on normalizing relations
in October 2009, but rapprochement stalled in 2010 when both the
Turkish and Armenian parliaments refused to ratify the protocols.
On 22 April 2010 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan suspended the
ratification process, accusing Turkey of placing conditions on
ratification.
The Turkish leadership has said several times that normalization is
possible only when Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied
Azerbaijani land of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts.
Meanwhile, Armenian nationalist politician Giro Manoyan, head of the
central Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office and a member of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, has accused Turkey of not
taking the protocols seriously.
"The last Turkish parliament did nothing on these protocols. Turkey
strongly indicated that it was not satisfied with the normalization
of Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions. Moreover, it
openly stated that normalization as such will not take place until
the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Manoyan told News.am
on 22 August.
He accused the Turkish side of not even complying with the required
procedures on the protocols.
Manoyan said the position of the Armenian authorities was humiliating,
as they were waiting for Turkey to ratify the protocols. He said that
that Turkey would probably put the protocols back on the agenda later.