"President shouldn’t have accepted the invitation"
9/10/14/vahan-hovhannisyan
04:14 pm | October 14, 2009
Leader of the ARF-Dashnaktsutiun faction Vahan Hovhannisian is sorry
to have watched the signing of the Protocols between Armenia and
Turkey on October 10.
For decades we have tried to break the wall of silence over the
Genocide issue and Hay Dat. With the signing of the Protocols, they
reinforced the wall on the back of Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandian
and Ahmed Davutoglu who keep the Armenian issue as a stake in their
political calculations," says Vahan Hovhannisian.
During today’s news conference the ARF-Dashnaktsutiun faction leader
noted that the Protocols were dangerous and shouldn’t have been
signed. The Protocols must be thrown down before they are sent to
Parliament for ratification.
"Serzh Sargsyan has accepted his Turkish counterpart’s invitation out
of politeness. I think that in such complicated situations national
interests must prevail over other issues. Eventually, the President
could have said: "since the conditions are not met, I shall not come
to Turkey. I shall watch the game on TV."
Vahan Hovhannisian doesn’t rule out that Turkey’s Parliament may
ratify the Protocols by the turn of the year, as the documents are
advantageous to Turkey.
If anyway, the Armenian-Turkish border is not opened, the
ARF-Dashnaktsutiun leader proposes to hurry up with the construction
of Armenia-Iran railway.
Though the Yerevan City Hall has not sanctioned ARF’s rally, we shall
hold the rally on October 16," Mr. Hovhannisian told journalists.