PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA: I SEE NO PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS IN THE INITIAL ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

ArmInfo
2009-09-30 14:53:00

Arminfo. ‘I see no preliminary conditions in the initial
Armenian-Turkish protocols’, – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said
at today’s discussion of the issue of the Armenian-Turkish relations
together with representatives of Public Council of the republic.

The president calmly accepts anxiety of the society on the matter. He
said it is not a treaty on capitulation or an agreement on strategic
partnership so that not to cause anxiety. ‘The initial protocols cannot
reflect only our wishes. We are not striving to establish friendly
relations with Turkey, we are just trying to create the relevant
atmosphere for work where a dialogue may be started’, – the president
said and added that at the beginning of the liberation war in Nagornyy
Karabakh many people also felt anxiety. ‘We have to establish natural
relations with Turkey. For this reason we have to start a dialogue. If
somebody is against this dialogue, I can accept his position only if
he has always been principally against this idea. But when the people,
the purpose of which is to collect scores, that is bad. There are the
political forces which are sure they are right and we are obliged to
respect their viewpoint’, – the president concluded.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress