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TURKEY'S EFFORTS HINDER ARMENIA'S WILLINGNESS FOR NORMALIZATION
Tert.am
03.05.11
Turkish high-ranking officials are sparing no efforts to alienate
Armenia's willingness to normalize relations with that country,
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan has said in Switzerland.
Speaking at a joint conference with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey
in Bern, Sargsyan said that by signing the Armenia-Turkey Protocols
Armenia intended to establish relations without any preconditions.
"Unfortunately, Turkey's high-ranking officials are doing their best
to alienate their wish," said he. "Instead of taking steps for the
ratification of the protocols signed, Turkey continues its viewless
efforts to force a wedge between Armenia and Diaspora."
With Switzerland's mediation in 2009 Armenia and Turkey signed
protocols to establish diplomatic ties and open the border. But the
process was halted in 2010 spring when Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree
suspending the ratification of those documents in the parliament
after Turkey linked their ratification to the settlement of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
"The more those efforts continue, the more will our confidence -
which has reached its minimum - in that normalization diminish,"
said Sargsyan.
"I am surprised that Turkey does not realize that the Diaspora, which
has formed as a result of the [Armenian] Genocide, is an inseparable
part of the pride, the force of Armenia and the Armenian people,"
he added.
"The Diasporan Armenians are Armenia's ambassadors spread all over the
world, as our world-known Ambassador in Switzerland, Charles Aznavur,
and many act through the beckoning of their souls and public basis,"
said Sargsyan.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
03.05.11
Turkish high-ranking officials are sparing no efforts to alienate
Armenia's willingness to normalize relations with that country,
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan has said in Switzerland.
Speaking at a joint conference with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey
in Bern, Sargsyan said that by signing the Armenia-Turkey Protocols
Armenia intended to establish relations without any preconditions.
"Unfortunately, Turkey's high-ranking officials are doing their best
to alienate their wish," said he. "Instead of taking steps for the
ratification of the protocols signed, Turkey continues its viewless
efforts to force a wedge between Armenia and Diaspora."
With Switzerland's mediation in 2009 Armenia and Turkey signed
protocols to establish diplomatic ties and open the border. But the
process was halted in 2010 spring when Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree
suspending the ratification of those documents in the parliament
after Turkey linked their ratification to the settlement of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
"The more those efforts continue, the more will our confidence -
which has reached its minimum - in that normalization diminish,"
said Sargsyan.
"I am surprised that Turkey does not realize that the Diaspora, which
has formed as a result of the [Armenian] Genocide, is an inseparable
part of the pride, the force of Armenia and the Armenian people,"
he added.
"The Diasporan Armenians are Armenia's ambassadors spread all over the
world, as our world-known Ambassador in Switzerland, Charles Aznavur,
and many act through the beckoning of their souls and public basis,"
said Sargsyan.
From: A. Papazian