Armenian ruling coalition offers to remove Protocols from agenda

Armenia’s ruling coalition, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Country of Law Party and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), issued a statement on April 22, pointing out the necessity to remove the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from the Armenian Parliament’s agenda.

The statement particularly reads: "Over the past two years the Armenian President, as well as the ruling parties has made consistent steps to establish relations with Turkey without any preconditions. The United States, Russia, France and Switzerland have rendered great assistance to the process. Many states welcomed the initiative to establish bilateral relations as a unique chance to establish stability in the region and resolve the current problems in a civilized way and through dialogue.

However, Armenia’s consistent steps, as well as the international community’s hopes, have constantly met with Turkey’s inconsistent policy of preconditions, which resulted in a stalemate in the ratification of Armenia-Turkey Protocols, signed October 10, 2009 in Zurich. Armenia’s political majority considers unacceptable the Turkish side’s position and, particularly, the latest statements by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who makes the ratification of the Protocols conditional on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.

Since Turkey’s refusal to ratify the protocols within a reasonable timeframe makes any further process in the Armenian Parliament senseless, the country’s ruling majority considers advisable to terminate the process and remove the issue from the agenda of the Parliament’s four-day session until the Turkish side is ready to continue the process without preconditions."


/News.am/