`Miatsum’ Protests Protocols; Delivers Letters to Minsk Group Co-Chair
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2009/09/25 | 19:35

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On September 25, members of the `Union National Initiative’ (UNI)
started from the Myasnikyan statue in downtown Yerevan and headed off
to the French, Russian and U.S. embassies to deliver protest letters
addressed to the presidents of all three nations. All three are Minsk
Group co-chair member countries.

The letters, according to UNI member Jirayr Sefilyan, `charges these
nations with manipulating the Armenian-Turkish negotiations process
and argues that if the recent protocols are ratified and subsequently
implemented it would lead to a new genocide.’

The UNI members carried banners and chanted slogans such as, `No to
the Madrid Principles’, `Traitors Out’ and `Union between Artsakh and
Armenia’, as they made their way to the French Embassy where Heritage
Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan handed over the letters.

Mr. Sefilyan argued that Armenian history wouldn’t start or end on
October 13, the projected date for the signing of the Armenian-Turkish
protocols. `There is a issue of frustration going on. Today we are
campaigning in the public sector and expressing our views. But I am
sure that there will come a time when we will rally the people and
take steps to put an end to this anti-Armenian process which basically
a result of the internal situation in the country.’

He went on to say that if Armenia had a healthy and moral political
environmental it could overcome the challenge and that the world
wouldn’t have placed such a document in front of us in the first
place.

When asked by reporters if he thought the government would take their
protest into account, Mr. Sefilyan said that the government must take
into account the wishes of the people. `We do wish to boast and say
that we represent the voice of the people. No that’s not what we want
to say. However, sooner or later one group or another must stand up
and say just that; that it speaks for the people and that it believes
the overwhelming majority of the people are against this political
process.’

`The protocols are already signed. The danger will come after they are
ratified by the parliament,’ Mr. Sefilyan concluded.