ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: THE FACT THAT TURKEY SEES IN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT’S DECISION PRECONDITIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS TO THE MAIN GOAL IS AMAZING AT LEAST

ArmInfo
2010-01-20 20:56:00

ArmInfo. On the Armenian party’s initiative, Armenian and Turkish
Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet Davutoglu had a telephone
conversation on Wednesday.

The Armenian foreign ministry press-service told ArmInfo that
Nalbandian expressed his bewilderment about the Turkish foreign
ministry’s Jan 18 statement on the decision of the Armenian
Constitutional Court. The fact that preconditions and contradictions
to the main goal have been seen in the Court’s decision is amazing at
least, he said. Nalbandian expressed his concern over the facts that
no progress has been observed regarding ratification of the Protocols
in Turkey so far.

At the same time, the Turkish party regularly tries to raise
preconditions and this creates an impression of searching artificial
excuses and endangers the whole process of normalization of the
Armenian-Turkish relations.

Positively estimating the fact that with its Jan 18 statement the
Turkish foreign ministry publicly confirmed the harmfulness of laying
down preconditions, Nalbandian offered his Turkish counterpart to
stay devoted to the letter and spirit of the Protocols and promote
the process at a swift rate.

He said that in Armenia the ratification process was not facing
groundless delays. For example, the verdict of the Constitutional
Court was passed a month before the schedule. Nalbandyan said that the
protocols should be ratified and implemented as quickly as possible
according to the obligations undertaken by the parites and the parties
should not try to artificially wreck the process.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress