CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IS AN ACCOMPLICE IN ANTI-ARMENIAN CONSPIRACY, HERITAGE PARTY DECLARES

Noyan Tapan
Jan 15, 2010

YEREVAN, JANUARY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Heritage party believes that the RA
Constitutional Court’s December 12 decision, by which the commitments
to be assumed by Armenia under the Armenia-Turkey protocols conform to
the RA Constitution, is anti-constitutional, illegal, anti-state and
antinational document adopted not in the name of Armenia and Artsakh,
but against these republics, their citizens, and the Armenians around
the world – is said in the party’s statement issued on the same day.

The statement notes:

"By the two Armenia-Turkey protocols signed under compulsion and by
means of trickery in Zurich on 10 October 2009, Armenia in particular
assumes commitments, that is to confirm "the mutual recognition of
the existing border between the two countries as defined in relevant
treaties of international law", to establish an intergovernmental
bilateral commission which shall include a sub-commission "on the
historical dimension with the aim … of an impartial scientific
examination of the historical records and archives to define existing
problems and formulate recommendations". The assumption of the first
commitment paves the way for solution of the argument about Turkey’s
territorial integrity and the legal and actual border between Armenia
and Turkey – not in favor of Armenia, as well as undermines the
foundations of the unexercised rights of the Armenian nation. The
adoption of the second commitment creates conditions for calling in
question the fact of the Armenian Genocide recognized by many countries
through an impartial approach. The fulfillment of these commitments
under the international and interstate obligations "to refrain from
pursuing any policy incompatible with the spirit of good neighborly
relations" and "to respect and ensure respect for the principles of
equality, sovereignty, non-intervention in internal affairs of other
states, territorial integrity and inviolability of frontiers" will
pave the way for imposing the Madrid Principles in the Artsakh problem.

The above mentioned facts alone should have been sufficient grounds for
the Constitutional Court to make a decision that the commitments to be
assumed by Armenia under the Armenia-Turkey protocols do not conform
to Articles 1 and 2 of the RA Constitution. Yet the Constitutional
Court’s decision shows that as a state government body, it is not a
bearer of delegated sovereignty of the people, moreover, it took a
criminal approach.

Heritage party states that:

– It will not accept the falsification now "being legalized" with
the participation of the Constitutional Court,

– The Constitutional Court is an accomplice in the anti-Armenian
conspiracy for yet another deprivation of Homeland,

– The Constitutional Court shares the responsibility for contributing
to the dangerous developments around Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as
a result of the realization of the Armenia-Turkey protocols,

– The responsibility for the crucial dangerous developments, decisions
and the Constitutional Court’s ruling as their completion lies with
Armenia’s presidencies that are behind all this, as well as with the
political forces backing their policy,

– Serge Sargsyan and his regime have exceeded all bounds of resignation
and responsibility".