ACCORDING TO CC OFFICIAL, ACCEPTING PROVISION ON RECOGNIZING BORDER BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY IS GROSS MISTAKE OF ARMENIAN DIPLOMACY

NoyanTapan
Jan 14, 2010

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The international law does not
permit to make reservations in bilateral agreements as it is senseless
and absurd. Vladmir Vardanian, the Head of Constitutional Court’s
Department of International Agreements, stated at a January 14 press
conference. In his words, before signing an agreement, when making
up the text, the sides should coordinate all points with one another.

After signing, as V. Vardanian emphasized, making a reservation on any
point is useless as unless the other side accepts that reservation
it will not have a legal force. "If our CC made reservations on
Armenian-Turkish protocols, Turkey would ask why earlier we had not
voiced the provisions inadmissible for us," V. Vardanian mentioned.

According to his observation, Armenian diplomacy made a gross mistake
by accepting the provision on recognizing the factual border between
Armenia and Turkey. According to V. Vardanian, there were many cases
in international practice when no point on recognizing the border
was included in such protocols.

V. Vardanian also said that currently NA does not need to make
a reservation as complicating the process artificially is not in
Armenia’s interests. He also declared that CC’s decision mentions
that RA is obliged to support the international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, and CC’s decision is compulsory for all RA state
bodies and officials.