APRIL 24 NOT DEADLINE FOR PROTOCOLS RATIFICATION BY TURKEY

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2010 15:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 24 is an extremely important date with a view
to ratification of protocols by Turkey, yet it~Rs not a deadline,
an Armenian expert said.

~STurkish diplomacy possesses arsenal of tools and I do not rule out
that it may take action on the threshold on the Armenian Genocide
Commemoration Day,~T Ruben Melkonyan said when responding to a
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter~Rs question during a news conference in
Yerevan on Friday.

Although, he noted, there were motions waiting for consideration in
the Turkish Grand Assembly for years.

The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks
held through Swiss mediation.

On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country~Rs Organic Law.