TURKEY’S MECLIS WILL GIVE POSITIVE CONCLUSION ON PROTOCOLS: RPA SPOKESPERSON
Tert
Nov 6 2009
Armenia
December 7 is the deadline by which point Turkey’s Meclis
Foreign Relations Committee must give its conclusion on the signed
Armenia-Turkey Protocols, after which point it will be included in
the agenda of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly’s (known as Turkiye
Buyuk Millet Meclis) plenary session.
Secretary of Republican Party of Armenia parliamentary faction, RPA
press spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov stated at a press conference
today that Turkey’s Meclis will give a positive conclusion on the
Protocols ratification.
"On December 7, Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan is to visit Washington
and meet US President Barack Obama, so the Foreign Relations Commission
of the Meclis, I am sure, will give a positive conclusion.
Otherwise, it’s not that he will not be welcomed with open arms, but
rather, he will not be received in Washington at all," Sharmazanov
said.
Commenting on why he is convinced that he will not be received in
Washington in case Turkey’s Meclis’s commission gives a negative
conclusion, Sharmazanov said that his confidence is based on the
statements made by U.S. President Obama and State Secretary Hillary
Clinton, by which they called upon the parties to establish relations
without preconditions.