ARF: TURKEY’S INTEREST IN OPEN BORDER MERE SHAM

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14:31 / 12/10/2009

"Armenia must immediately pull out of the Armenia-Turkey normalization
process. The longer the process lasts the longer we will remain
stuck in it," Giro Manoyan, Head of the Hay Dat office in Armenia,
member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), told reporters.

According to him, defining the Erdogan-Obama meeting as "meeting
[Armenia’s] interests" is the right thing to do. "At the meeting,
Erdogan said about Karabakh what he had said before, whereas Obama
did not reaffirm his position stated in his letter addressed to the
Armenian community a few days before. The United States has some plans
concerning Turkey and, therefore, cannot exert as strong pressure on
Turkey as Armenia hopes for," Manoyan said.

As to which of the sides will benefit more should the Armenian-Turkish
border be reopened, Manoyan expressed the confidence that this issue
is not of primary importance for Turkey, but "this is only a series
of shams aimed at proving the world that the process is going on and
Turkey is interested in the border being reopened."

As regards the RA Constitutional Court’s expected verdict on the
Armenian-Turkish protocols, Manoyan pointed out that the ARF will take
necessary actions: it will try to pressure the CC and the Parliament
by raising a wave of public protest.