TURKEY’S POSITION ON PROTOCOLS CAN VIOLATE REASONABLE TERMS OF RATIFICATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2010 19:04 GMT+04:00
"At the moment Turkey is artificially prolonging the ratification of
the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, and the country delaying the documents’
ratification will have problems with the international community,"
Edward Sharmazanov , secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia’s
parliamentary group, told a press conference in Yerevan today.
Replying to a PanARMENIAN.Net question about Armenia’s response to
further delay of the ratification process by Turkey, Mr. Sharmazanov
said that Armenia will react in the framework of international law.
"The order of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan about making
amendments to the RA Law "On international treaties" create legal
framework for denunciation of the Protocols," he said.
Protocols on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations have
been signed on October 10, 2009 in Zurich by the foreign ministers
of Armenia and Turkey, Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet Davutoglu in the
presence of the foreign ministers of France, the United States, Russia
and Switzerland after a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss
mediation since 2007. According to the Protocols, diplomatic relations
should be established between the two countries and the mutual border,
closed by Turkey since 1993, should be opened. On January 12, 2010
Armenian Constitutional Court acknowledged the constituency of the
Protocols.
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) was founded in 1990 by Ashot
Navasardyan. The ideological basis of the party is the doctrine of
the Armenian political and military leader of the First Republic
of Armenia Garegin Nzhdeh. The re-birth of the Republican Party is
organically linked with the national liberation struggle in 1988.
Institutional framework for the establishment of the Republican Party
was formed at the beginning of this struggle by the military-political
union "Army of Independence". As a political party it was registered
on 14 May 1991.
The party has made a significant contribution to the work of the
Coordinating Council of volunteer militias, helping to establish the
rule of law and order in the republic, and after the formation of a
regular national army in Armenia Armenian Republican Party declared
about its demilitarization.
In July 2006, the 10th extraordinary congress of the party declared
the Republican Party of Armenia as National Conservative Party.
Chairman of the party up to 1997 was Ashot Navasardyan, between 1997
and 2005 – Andranik Margaryan. At present, the party is headed by
the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.