ALEXANDER ISKANDARYAN: ARMENIA HAS MADE ENOUGH GESTURES
Anna Nazaryan

"Radiolur"
24.12.2009 16:42

"April 24 is the deadline for ratification of the Armenian-Turkish
protocols, and if the Turkish Parliament fails to ratify the protocols
by then, it will suffer great losses," political scientist Alexander
Iskandaryan told a press conference today.

The words of either Armenian or Turkish officials are not the Words of
Moses, and they should not be accepted as a dogma. According to him,
politicians make statements in order to influence the process. These
are rather signals.

Baku’s anxiety is understandable, because it is confident that the
establishment of relations between Yerevan and Ankara will make
Armenia stronger. According to Alexander Iskandaryan, this is the
reason why Turkish journalists were saying Turkey expects certain
gestures from Armenia.

"I think Armenia has made enough gestures starting from Maindorf and
ending with Athens. I follow the events, sometimes I visit Turkey and
I think that on this level Armenia has given the maximum it could have
given, and it’s not going to give more," Alexander Iskandaryan said.

The political scientist considers that Azerbaijan will hardly manage
to stop the process of Armenian-Turkish normalization. "Turkey seems
ready to pay the price. However, there may be developments inside
Turkey, as a result of which the authorities will either not be able
to ratify the protocols or will consider that the loss may be too big."

In any case, it is obvious that the Armenian-Turkish process has been
stalled because of the Karabakh issue.