VLADIMIR KARAPETYAN: TURKEY WILL NOT RATIFY PROTOCOLS

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Oct 22 2009
Armenia

Turkey will not ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols nor
will the border be reopened, Vladimir Karapetyan, International
Affairs Coordinator, Armenian National Congress (ANC), told a press
conference. Although Ankara can benefit from reopening the border with
Armenia, it benefits even more from friendly relations with Azerbaijan.

The present developments involving the Azerbaijani-Turkish relations
are, according to him, nothing but "masterly cooperation."

Azerbaijan is pressuring Turkey, which, in turn, is demonstrating this
pressure to those urging it to ratify the protocols. "It is under this
pretext that the ratification will be delayed," he said. Karapetyan
added that Ankara will start pressuring the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
into intensifying the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. He pointed out
that the Armenian side is entertaining secret hopes that Turkey will
not sign the protocols.