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  • MFA Mum On Future Of Turkey-Armenia Protocols After Sargsyan's Remar

    MFA MUM ON FUTURE OF TURKEY-ARMENIA PROTOCOLS AFTER SARGSYAN'S REMARKS AT UN

    NEWS | 30.09.14 | 10:31
    http://armenianow.com/news/57220/armenia_turkey_protocols_foreign_minister_nalbandi an

    Official Yerevan does not make further comments regarding the possible
    withdrawal of the Turkey-Armenia protocols from the National Assembly
    following President Serzh Sargsyan's allowing such a possibility in
    his speech at the United Nations.

    Addressing the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on
    September 24, Sargsyan said that "official Yerevan is seriously
    considering the issue of recalling the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from
    the parliament."

    "Armenia has never conditioned the normalization of the bilateral
    relations with Turkey by recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In
    fact, Armenia was the party that initiated such a process which
    culminated in the signing of the Zurich Protocols in 2009. However,
    those Protocols have been shelved for years now awaiting ratification
    in the Turkish Parliament," the Armenian leader declared.

    "Ankara declares publicly that it will ratify those Protocols only if
    Armenians cede Nagorno- Karabakh, independent Artsakh, to Azerbaijan.

    In Armenia and Artsakh ordinary people often just retort to such
    preconditions: "To hell with you ratification." This vernacular phrase
    concentrates the age-old struggle of the entire nation, and it
    unequivocally explains to those who attempt to bargain the others'
    homeland that the motherland is sacrosanct, and they had better stay
    away from us with their bargain. It is in these circumstances that
    currently the official Yerevan is seriously considering the issue of
    recalling the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from the parliament,"
    Sargsyan added.

    During a joint press conference with the visiting UNDP Administrator,
    Under-Secretary-General Helen Clark in Yerevan, on Monday, in the
    context of President Sargsyan's remarks at the UN, Armenian Foreign
    Minister Edward Nalbandian was asked whether there were approximate
    dates for the recalling of the Turkey-Armenia protocols from the
    Parliament.

    "If there was such a decision, the President of the Republic would
    probably say about it. But the President said what he said and as of
    now I have nothing to add," the top Armenian diplomat said.

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