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‘Not April 24, But Protocols On The Agenda This Year’: Turkish Diplo

‘NOT APRIL 24, BUT PROTOCOLS ON THE AGENDA THIS YEAR’: TURKISH DIPLOMATS

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14:34 ~U 28.01.10

This year, Turkey has no reason to be uncomfortable on the matter of
the possible approval of an Armenian Genocide resolution in the U.S.

Congress, said unnamed high-ranking officials in Turkey’s foreign
policy department in an interview with Turkish station NTV.

"It’s not April 24, but rather, the future of the Armenian-Turkish
Protocols that are on the agenda this year," said the Turk diplomats.

NTV News Director Mete Cubukcu, commenting on the latest developments
in the process of normalizing Armenia-Turkey relations, notes that
Turkey, in the current situation, doesn’t wish to be on the neglected
side of the negotiating table.

"Good, but what is Turkey doing in the current situation? To show
that it doesn’t want the process to fail, it demands a guarantee from
the U.S. and Switzerland, and that, in written form," said Cubukcu,
emphasizing that Turkey, by demanding written guarantees, delays the
process with the aim of making the U.S. and Switzerland accountable.

Referring to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process,
Cubukcu notes that the negotiating process must be vitalized.

"It’s important, that acceleration take place in the negotiating
movement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis state
that the borders can open if the Armenians withdraw from the five
territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh. While the Armenians
are in favour of a complete resolution to the issue. It’s also
well-known that Turkey will not take a single step in the issue of
ratifying the Protocols, since progress hasn’t been registered in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," said the NTV news director, concluding
that a crisis is about to erupt in the Caucasus.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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