TURKISH PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAY DEBATE PROTOCOLS IN APRIL

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.02.2010 13:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Experiencing a large number of domestic problems,
Turkey is still trying to gain regional influence, said Gagik
Harutyunyan, head of Noravank foundation.

"As to Armenia, it has made two brilliant moves recently: former
President Robert Kocharian’s visit to Iran and the ruling of the
Constitutional Court," he told a joint news conference with director
of RA NAS Institute of Oriental Studies, prof. Ruben Safrastyan.

Commenting on the Armenian-Turkish process, he described it as
"stagnant but not in deadlock".

Echoing the opinion, prof. Safrastyan added that "Turkey is just
trying to gain time. "The Turkish parliamentary committee on foreign
affairs is likely to debate Protocols in April," he said.

The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks
held through Swiss mediation.

On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country’s Organic Law.