WHY DIDN’T GAGIK TSARUKYAN GO TO BURSA?

Tert
Oct 26 2009
Armenia

Today, head of the Armenian National Olympic Committee, leader of the
Prosperous Armenia party and well-known Armenian businessman Gagik
Tsarukyan clarified for journalists at the National Assembly why he
didn’t leave for Bursa to watch the Armenia-Turkey football match.

"I had said that I wouldn’t leave, because where I go we must win, this
is the main issue," Tsarukyan said, adding that he knew the Armenian
football players would lose and that’s why he didn’t leave for Bursa.

Tsarukyan stressed once more the party’s viewpoint on the
Armenian-Turkish Protocols: "I told all of you [that] the country’s
president said [and] the National Parliament spokesperson said
without pre-conditions [in establishment of bilateral relations]. If
any precondition is made, we will all resign, our nation’s [good]
name is not for sale. We said establishment of diplomatic relations,
opening of borders, nothing else should be connected."