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    news.am, Armenia
    Jan 5 2010


    2010 year of international pressure: Yervand Bozoyan

    12:05 / 01/05/2010 The most significant event of 2009 in foreign policy
    was signing of Armenia-Turkey Protocols, and the law on amnesty `the
    most important one in domestic policy, expert Yervand Bozoyan told
    NEWS.am. He hailed negative the fact that Protocols signed in Zurich
    are conditioned by Karabakh peace process. `I repeatedly stated that
    politics supposes political processes but not legal. Legal documents
    usually are of less significance, frequently they remain ink on paper.
    It is important what political consequences these juridical acts will
    have. As to Armenia-Turkey Protocols, they are directly linked with
    Karabakh issue,' the expert said.

    The expert considers that 2010 will be a difficult year for Armenia,
    as international community will increase its pressure in the peace
    process, influenced by Ankara which links Protocols' signing with
    Karabakh conflict settlement. `Ankara has greater weight for
    international community than Yerevan, and Turkey's conditions on
    Karabakh will be accepted. Armenian authorities will need great will
    to resist the pressure that supposes unilateral concessions from
    Armenian side on Karabakh peace process,' Bozoyan stated. He
    underlined that situation will depend not on leadership only, but
    political forces on the whole. `Political forces should respond
    adequately to the events. If they, and particularly Armenian National
    Congress, react as they did in 2009, Armenia will be in deplorable
    state as it was in 1920,' Bozoyan outlined.

    According to him, if Armenian side makes concessions in Karabakh
    issue, Turkey will not ratify the Protocols. `In this case new
    political situation will need new approaches for the establishment of
    relations with neighbors, new approaches that will not have
    consequences of notorious &`football diplomacy.' Before this diplomacy
    was launched, Turkey itself was ready to make the first step. They
    started speaking about normalization of the relations with Armenia,
    guided by &`zero problems with neighbors' concept,' the expert
    concluded.

    A.G.
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