ARFD AND OTHER FORCES NOT ACCEPTING ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS TO HOLD ACTIONS OF PROTEST SOON

NOYAN TAPAN
DECEMBER 14, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. ARFD will hold mass actions of
protest soon demanding that the RA Constitutional Court recognize the
Armenian-Turkish protocols as not corresponding to the Constitution.

ARFD Bureau member, head of the NA ARFD faction Vahan Hovhannisian
reported at a December 14 press conference. In his words "not easy
life is expected" in the days of the actions, and though they will
be post-festive days ARFD and other organizer parties expect active
participation from people.

V. Hovhannisian added that a great number of NGOs gradually join the
movement initiated by the parties not accepting the protocols. In
response to the question of whether they will join the Armenian
National Congress the ARFD deputy stated that those ironically calling
their movement "Hay Dat movement" have nothing to do with ARFD.

"Blindly hating the authorities the ANC holds the same opinion with
them in the issue of Armenian-Turkish relations," V. Hovhannisian
said. He also declared that one had to be "an evil genius" to
disappoint in three years the people that rose in 1988 and was filled
with enthusiasm.

Touching upon the Nagorno Karabakh conflict V. Hovhannisian mentioned
that the Madrid Principles are not acceptable for ARFD. "They are
aimed at liquidating the consequences of the war and not its reason.

Therefore they accentuate return of territories and not the Nagorno
Karabakh status," he said.