"ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS HAVE MORE PLUSES THAN MINUSES," EDITOR OF ARAVOT DAILY SAYS

NOYAN TAPAN
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. According to editor-in-chief of
the Aravot daily Aram Abrahamian, the Armenian-Turkish protocols have
more "pluses than minuses" and it is very doubtful that they would
be ratified, signed and fulfilled. As he mentioned at a meeting with
reporters on September 24, Turkey will hardly ratify them without
the Nagorno Karabakh problem.

As to ARFD’s actions taken against the ratification of those documents,
according to A. Abrahamian, he would be very surprised if they
were for.

"Thus it would not be Dashnaktsutiun. Professing that ideology,
request of Armenian Cause, it is very natural that they responded in
that way," the editor of the Aravot daily said.

Touching upon the development problems of press in Armenia,
A. Abrahamian noted that the freedom, independence and development
of press first of all are conditioned by economic problems. "As any
branch of economy printed media will aslo develop and will be free
as much as our economy is," he said.