HOVHANNISYAN: THE BEST WAY IS TO PREVENT PROTOCOLS FROM BEING RATIFIED

Yerkir
24.11.2009 18:27

Yerevan (Yerkir) – Vahan Hovhannisyan, the leader of the ARF faction
in parliament, told a news conference on November 24 that after
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement on resuming war, Armenia
had to tell the international mediators that negotiations cannot
be continued in these circumstances. Otherwise, the controversial
comments in various publications show that everything is done to get
more concessions from Armenia.

The ARF had been warning the Armenian authorities against such
developments, Hovhannisyan said. Azerbaijan is trying to get as much
as possible from the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process.

Hovhannisyan does not believe the Armenian authorities as well as
the international mediators when they say that the return of the
territories is not considered at the talks.

Why isn’t ARF more active at this point? Hovhannisyan said that ARF’s
goal is to prevent the protocols from being ratified. The protocols
are at the Constitutional Court presently, and the ARF’s tactics will
change soon.