ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN TO RALLY IN YEREVAN AGAINST RATIFICATION OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

ArmInfo
2010-01-11 12:07:00

ArmInfo. ARF Dashnaktsutyun will start a rally in Stepan Shahumyan
Square in the city center today on 4:30pm local time against
ratification of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, the ARFD Bureau
told ArmInfo.

The participants in the rally will go in a procession up to the
Constitutional Court, which will discuss the Protocols on January 12.

The participants will make speeches in front of the Court and will
hand their statement over to the CC Chairman Gagik Haroutiunyan.

Fourteen parties will participate in the rally. The rally was
preliminary scheduled in front of the Moscow Cinema, but the Yerevan
Municipality proposed the ARFD to rally in Shahumyan Square not to
hinder the New Year holidays events.

Armenia and Turkey signed the "Protocol on the establishment
of diplomatic relations" and the "Protocol on the development of
bilateral relations" in Zurich on October 10. Afterwards, the Turkish
Foreign Ministry submitted the protocols to the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Turkish Parliament. The final resolution was to be
made before December 7, but wasn’t. To come into effect the protocols
must be submitted to the respective Parliaments for the ratification
on each side.