ANC: RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS VERDICT PRESENT FOR TURKEY

news.am
Jan 22 2010
Armenia

The RA Constitutional Court returned a verdict confirming the
constitutionality of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, attaching a
wordy declaration to it. Although the declaration has no legal force,
the state propaganda and the "opposition" Armenian Revolutionary
Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF) hyped it up as a "neutralizer of
Turkey’s preconditions," regarding it as "a correction of diplomatic
blunders," reads a statement issued by the Armenian National Congress
(ANC).

According to the ANC, the Constitutional Court pit on a show by
returning a disgraceful verdict. "That trick is intended for ‘domestic
use’, slurring over the blunder and saving of the ‘opposition’
Dashnaktsutyun may turn into a trap for Armenia," the statement reads.

The RA Constitutional Court gave Turkey an expensive present, the ANC
states. "Like the Armenian authorities, the Turkish authorities take
the declaration attached to the verdict seriously," statement reads.

After Turkey "discovers" preconditions and points "running counter"
to the protocols, it will demand the revision of the verdict and lay
the responsibility for the failure of the process on Armenia.

"After getting as much as it wanted from the signing of the protocols,
Turkey has got ‘a legal’ pretext for not providing Armenia with the
minimum (the reopening of roads), which would be possible only after
the protocols are ratified," the statement says.

The ANC also states that "falling into one more trap is the result
of not only illegitimacy of the incumbent Armenian authorities, but
also complete incompetence of the relevant Armenian officials. New
failures are inevitable as long as, according to the most important
representative of the ruling regime, the following standard is in
effect there: you do not have to be a man of great intellect to become
a politician. This standard actually applies to all the officials at
all the level," says the statement.