ARA PAPIAN SEEKS DEBATE WITH MINISTER NALBANDIAN
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11:52 am | October 05, 2009
Politics
Ara Papian, director of the Modus Vivendi Social and Scientific
Research Center, has sent a letter to Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian with his arguments on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols.
Mr. Papian advises the Armenian FM to invite him to live debate if
the latter disagrees with his arguments. "I will take Mr. Nalbandian’s
silence as consent to my arguments," says Mr. Papian.
On October 1, at the end of parlimentray hearings on the bilateral
Protocols, the Armenian FM announced: "Wilson’s decision has no legal
force since the U.S. Senate didn’t ratify the document. "
Therefore, Mr. Papian has decided to answer Minister Nalbandian with
an open letter.
Ara Papian says the Minister has confused two issues with chronological
linkage -the issues of Armenia’s mandate and borders; hence people
have arrived at a wrong conclusion.
With regard to Wilson’s decision, Mr. Papian says "any arbitral award
has a legal force and is a binding document if it is made without
procedural violations it. Moreover, arbitral awards are final and
without appeal. The arbitral award is final and binding decision by
an arbitrator):
The final and biding essence of arbitral awards is codified in the
international right, particularly in the Hague Convention for the
Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
Thus, arbitral awards
1)are final and binding 2)need no ratification or approval
US President Vudro Wilson has determined the border between Armenia
and Turkey with his arbitral award which is still in effect and is
not subject to changes.