ANOTHER GOD-FOR-SAKEN SLYNESS

bken-ararkcyan
08:36 pm | September 01, 2009

Politics

"The current authorities want to "throw" the burden off their shoulders
and that is why they say that the protocols must be ratified by the
parliament," former NA chairman Babken Ararktsyan told "A1+".

"The Constitution separates the responsibilities of the National
Assembly, the President and the Government. There must be political
will and determination instead of throwing the burden on other people’s
shoulders," says Ararktsyan

Ararktsyan has generally been in favor of normalization of
Turkish-Armenian relations since the 1990s."But we must understand
what price we are paying for that. Once, for the first time, chairman
of the USSR Committee of Ministers Kosigin announced that the Soviet
Union has no territorial claims from Turkey and that caused a heated
reaction not only in Armenia, but in the Diaspora as well. Then Robert
Kocharyan made a similar announcement, but they were just oral. Now
the borders will be set on paper; in other words, this is between
two states," says Babken Ararktsyan.

Ararktsyan is also concerned about the timeline for discussions and
consultations.

"The issue had to be solved through serious, detailed discussions
and not through a six-week discussion. Leading this most significant
and fatal issue based on some football game timeline is an immoral
attitude toward the issue concerning Armenians everywhere."

Ararktsyan views the recent dangers of war in the context of the
propaganda.

"They are presenting the danger of war to our people so that they
can justify that there would be a war otherwise."

Babken Ararksyan also knows that the protocols are directly tied to
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. "I think that all possible
and impossible concessions were made before the Turkish side agreed
to this kind of protocol."

According to Ararktsyan, the Turkish side tried to present the issue
of the Turkish-Armenian commission in secret, but it is clear that it
is stated in the document and thus, the genocide issue is not only
excluded from the agenda of the international community, but it is
also out of the relations between Turkey and Armenia.

Serzh Sargsyan has clarified that there will be a sub-committee of the
intergovernmental commission. In response to that, Ararktsyan said:
"That is another god-for-saken slyness. It just has to be translated
into normal words and everything will be clear."