ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT KNOWS , IT’S TAKING AN ANTI-ARMENIAN STEP, SAYS MP ARAM KARAPETYAN

Tert
Oct 22 2009
Armenia

A venue for New Times Party Leader Aram Karapetyan to give a press
conference wasn’t found immediately. The journalists and the politician
were informed about the place on the spot: the press conference was
to take place at Erebuni Plaza Hotel. However, the De Facto media
center situated there had decided to provide the premise for holding
another event without any advance warning.

"If this is intentional, I’m sorry, it’s just plain stupidity. If it’s
not intentional, let’s consider that it turned out this way today,"
Karapetyan said giving the press conference in the open air.

Immediately jumping to the topic of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols
and referring to the statement made by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu yesterday, Karapetyan stated that the minister’s words noted
the existence of pre-conditions. "There are three pre-conditions, the
most important of which in this phase is the fact that the Armenian
leadership is directly obliged and is lead to recognize the Treaty
of Kars." This, according to the New Times party leader, means giving
up the territories of Western Armenia.

Karapetyan said that the Armenian Genocide and Nagorno-Karabakh are
the other two preconditions.

Karapetyan believes that the result of exerting pressure on the
leadership in Armenia was that "all the sides had to point to the
preconditions in nervous spasms."

"Nalbandyan understood that if, after signing the Protocols,
an announcement was made that a commission of historians was to be
created to examine the facts of Genocide, there would be an uproar
in Armenia," the politician stated.

He also thinks that the leadership will try to ratify the
Armenian-Turkish Protocols in such a way as to avoid future problems.

"This shows that parliamentarians understand they are going to take
a very anti-Armenian step by ratifying the Protocols," the leader of
New Times Party said.

Stating that one shouldn’t trust Turkish officials, Karapetyan said
that Armenian politicians, on the other hand, are keeping quiet,
so how can "we know whether to believe [them] or not?"

Furthermore, Karapetyan reproached the Armenian leadership for not
responding to the statement Turkish foreign minister made yesterday.