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    TURKISH EX-FM: COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENT NOT TO RATIFY ANKARA-YEREVAN PROTOCOLS

    Today
    http://www.today.az/news/turkey/6 2267.html
    Feb 22 2010
    Azerbaijan

    The Turkish Parliament will not ratify the Turkish-Armenian protocols
    after their amendment by the Armenian Constitutional Court, Turkish
    Parliamentary EU Adjustment Committee Chairman and former Turkish
    Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said.

    "If Armenia hoped that Ankara would take the Armenian Constitutional
    Court's amends to the protocols, it is mistaken. Ankara will never
    accept them," Yakis told Trend News over the phone.

    Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers, Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward
    Nalbandian, signed the protocols in Zurich Oct. 10.

    After his official visit to Moscow, Turkish Prime Minister Recep
    Tayyip Erdogan said in Ankara that although some claims that the
    Turkey-Armenia relations are not related to the Nagorno-Karabakh
    problem, this process is directly related to the conflict.

    The Armenian Constitutional Court approved that the Ankara-Yerevan
    protocols complied with the Armenian Constitution Jan.12, 2009.

    However, later the court reported that the creation of a joint
    commission to study the 1915 events is unnecessary and Armenia will
    always seek to recognize the genocide.

    Erdogan warned that if the Armenian Constitutional Court does not
    reverse its decision, the relations between Ankara and Yerevan
    may erode.

    There is no such rule in the international practice, where after the
    signing of an international instrument a domestic legislative body
    can make changes, he said.

    The Turkish government signed the protocols not with the Constitutional
    Court, but with the Armenian government and the court's decision is
    an internal affair of Yerevan, and has no relation to Turkey, he added.

    According to him, if Armenia had any claims in connection with the
    signed protocol, it should have said earlier.

    "If the Turkish MPs stated that they will not ratify the
    Armenian-Turkish protocols, until the resolution of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh issue, any prime minister or foreign minister or
    president will not affect their decision," he said.

    Regarding efforts from the United States and Russia, which are
    co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group, Yakis said: "Washington is now more
    interested in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as the delay
    in this matter could have a negative effect on U.S. relations with
    such ally as Turkey."

    Russia, in turn, does not want to loose positions in the South
    Caucasus, and does not intend to relinquish its influence in the
    region.

    "If Armenia solves its problems with Turkey, it no longer needs
    the presence of Russia in the South Caucasus, and sooner or later,
    Armenia would send its gaze toward the United States," he said.

    Nevertheless, resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is in
    Russia's interest, which is concerned over the lack of stability in
    the South Caucasus, he added.

    "But politicians sometimes do not take strategic decisions, taking
    into account only the goals of today. I think that Russia will not
    show resolution when deciding on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue," he said.
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