ARMENIA CONSECUTIVE IN DECISION TO RATIFY PROTOCOLS
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Jan 22 2010
Armenia
Armenia is consecutive in its intention to ratify the Protocols and
all statements that CC made certain amendments to the documents are
ridiculous, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at the press
conference in Yerevan.
According to him, after the documents signing in Zurich, the
ratification process was frozen by Turkey. He expressed confidence
that Turks will not look for artificial reasons to protract the
ratification. "I do not think that international community will bear
with intension to shift the whole blame on Armenia," FM stated,
adding that few in Turkey will believe it either. "We hope that
Turkey will ratify the Protocols and stop speaking the language
of preconditions, as well as seek for inexistent links with other
processes," he underlined.
January 12, RA Constitutional Court ruled Armenia-Turkey Protocols
constitutional. Under the decision the Protocols cannot be interpreted
and implemented in the way that RA Constitution or 11th provision of
Armenian Declaration on Independence is violated. The 11th provision
reads: "The Republic of Armenia stands in support of the task of
achieving international recognition of the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman
Turkey and Western Armenia." It drew the indignation of Turkish Foreign
Ministry that blamed Yerevan on violation of the principles stipulated
in the Protocols. Later, Nalbandian had a phone conversation with
his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, however RA Foreign Minster
recommended to learn Davutoglu’s replies from Turkish sources.