THE CALIFORNIA COURIER: ARMENIA, TURKEY NOT TO BACK DOWN THEIR POSITIONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.01.2010 18:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The international community is no longer buying the
endless Turkish excuses for refusing to ratify the Protocols, says
The California Courier editor Harut Sasunyan in his regular column.
"Armenian officials, who naively believed that Turkey would open its
border and establish diplomatic relations with Armenia, are beginning
to question the Turks’ sincerity and contemplating the possibility
of the Protocols’ collapse," he wrote in a recent article.
Now the blame game starts, says the author, asking "Whose fault is
it that the Protocols are not being ratified?"
According to him, "The Turks are the ones to be blamed for deceiving
the international community all along. It was never the intention
of the Turkish leaders to carry out their publicly stated plans to
normalize relations with Armenia. They were simply engaged in a ploy
to obstruct what they believed to be Pres. Obama’s solemn pledge to
recognize the Armenian Genocide, and to facilitate Turkey’s admission
to the European Union (EU), since open borders are one of the key
prerequisites for EU membership."
"Without taking a single positive step, Turkey created the false
impression of reconciling with Armenia, thereby dissuading Pres. Obama
from using the term "Genocide" in his April 24 statement. Turkish
leaders also succeeded in exploiting the Protocols to generate
favorable worldwide publicity for their country," he further notes.
At this juncture, he says, neither Armenia nor Turkey is willing to
back down from its recalcitrant position.
Should Turkey’s leaders remove Artsakh and the Constitutional Court
as preconditions, they would risk not only losing Azerbaijan as an
ally, but seriously jeopardize their party’s majority in next year’s
parliamentary election. Similarly, Armenia’s leaders can neither give
up Artsakh nor "correct" the ruling of the Constitutional Court. No
amount of outside pressure can therefore force the two governments
to reverse course. That is why I believe the Protocols cannot be
resuscitated, Sasunyan adds in conclusion.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
