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Melikyan: Armenian authorities should admit fault in protocols issue
August 26, 2011 - 18:22 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian authorities should acknowledge that the
attempt to normalize relations with Turkey through the protocols
signed in Zurich was a mistake, former Foreign Minister of Nagorno
Karabakh Republic said.
`Armenia needs precise policy on the Karabakh conflict and relations
with Turkey. Emotional talk is not the right thing. The protocols
proved that Armenia doesn't have its own position,' Arman Melikyan
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter when commenting on Turkey's withdrawal
of protocols from its parliament agenda.
According to him, Armenian-Turkish relations should be normalized but
by other means.
On August 22, 2011, Turkey's Grand National Assembly has withdrawn
from the agenda 898 bills, including the Armenian-Turkish protocols
envisaging normalization of relations with Armenia and opening of the
border. The new Turkish parliament considers that the issue of opening
of border with Armenia is no longer actual for the country's political
course. Besides, in compliance with the parliament's regulations, a
bill that was rejected by the parliament loses its legal force during
six months.
The protocols were signed in 2009 in Zurich by Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
Davutoglu. In April 2010, RA President Serzh Sargsyan decreed to
suspend the process of ratification of the protocols due to Ankara's
unwillingness to ratify them.
August 26, 2011 - 18:22 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian authorities should acknowledge that the
attempt to normalize relations with Turkey through the protocols
signed in Zurich was a mistake, former Foreign Minister of Nagorno
Karabakh Republic said.
`Armenia needs precise policy on the Karabakh conflict and relations
with Turkey. Emotional talk is not the right thing. The protocols
proved that Armenia doesn't have its own position,' Arman Melikyan
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter when commenting on Turkey's withdrawal
of protocols from its parliament agenda.
According to him, Armenian-Turkish relations should be normalized but
by other means.
On August 22, 2011, Turkey's Grand National Assembly has withdrawn
from the agenda 898 bills, including the Armenian-Turkish protocols
envisaging normalization of relations with Armenia and opening of the
border. The new Turkish parliament considers that the issue of opening
of border with Armenia is no longer actual for the country's political
course. Besides, in compliance with the parliament's regulations, a
bill that was rejected by the parliament loses its legal force during
six months.
The protocols were signed in 2009 in Zurich by Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
Davutoglu. In April 2010, RA President Serzh Sargsyan decreed to
suspend the process of ratification of the protocols due to Ankara's
unwillingness to ratify them.