U.S. HASN’T RECOGNIZED TURKISH REPUBLIC JURIDICALLY SO FAR
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2007 16:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The U.S. hasn’t recognized the Turkish Republic
jurudically so far. In 1918 the U.S. Senate decreed that a state which
failed to fulfill the arbitration award of the U.S. President cannot
be recognized," Ara Papyan, orientalist, specialist in international
law and Armenia’s former Ambassador to Canada told a news conference
in Yerevan.
"It’s not true that the Lausanne peaceful agreement annulled the
Sevr treaty. The Armenian-Turkish border issue wasn’t even discussed
in Lausanne. There were two reasons for it. First, there already
existed the arbitration award. Second, Armenia wasn’t an element of the
international law any more. Furthermore, provision 16 of the agreement
reads, "Turkey renounces its claims to territories which are not marked
by the Lausanne peaceful agreement as Turkish." Actually, the Lausanne
agreement had restored the Sevr treaty," the Armenian diplomat said.
At that Ara Papyan noted that presently the matter concerns
rehabilitation of international law but not return of lands. "For
Armenia it’s first of all a security issue which includes
demilitarization of the border zone, Turkey’s abstinence from
interfering into the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Armenia’s engagement
into economic projects," Mr Papyan said.