ARMENIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEMANDS MEMORANDUM ADDENDUM TO THE PROTOCOLS

Tert
Oct 28 2009
Armenia

"We are against ratification of the Protocols with the presented
contents by the Republic of Armenia National Assembly," Leader of
Armenian Democratic Party Aram Sargsyan stated today and added that
some parts of the contents of the signed documents prove that the
Protocols are unfavourable.

According to Sargsyan, the establishment process of Armenian-Turkish
relations was not realized during the presidencies of the former
two presidents not because Ter-Petrosian and Kocharian didn’t want
Armenian-Turkish relations, but because normalization of relations
is only now part of Turkey’s political interests. Sargsyan stated
that the Armenian side, thinking that Turkey would give up signing
of the Protocols, made unprecedented concessions.

The party leader made a statement demanding attaching a Memorandum to
the Protocols ratification. "Concerned with this perspective and aiming
to insure us against the prospect of an incorrect political move, we
demand that the Armenian National Assembly adopt a special Memorandum,
in which it will enumerate those unresolved historical issues and
fair claims which are the not-overcome consequences of the Genocide
and which remain on the agenda of the Republic of Armenia’s foreign
policy as indisputable issues," the party demands with its statement.

Aram Sargsyan noted that they have sent their statement to the National
Assembly for discussion.