MIATSUM INITIATIVE COLLECTS 9500 SIGNATURES AGAINST ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS
Noyan Tapan
Oct 20, 2009
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The Miatsum national initiative has
collected nearly 9500 signatures in the signature collection against
the Armenian-Turkish protocols and Madrid Principles held for 10
days in various Yerevan communities. As initiative representative
Armen Yeghian said at an October 20 press conference, after signing
the protocols the RA authorities started to exert pressure and to
hinder the signature collection. In particular, in his words, last
week in the Nor Nork district "nearly 20 dregs made an attempt of a
provocation," however they failed.
According to another representative of the initiative, Tigran
Khzmalian, persecutions of politically active figures are actions done
by special services. In his words, it is done within the framework
of the demand to suppress the nationalistic moods of the protocols. T.
Khzmalian is also a member of the Committee of Political Prisoners,
on behalf of which he declared: "Persons pressed in connection with
Armenian-Turkish relations will be considered politically persecuted
persons and will be protected as political prisoners."