TURKISH PARLIAMENT SHOULD PASS PROTOCOLS WITH ARMENIA FIRST, SAYS ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
Focus News
Feb 11 2010
Bulgaria
London/Ankara. The Turkish parliament should vote on and approve
the protocols with Armenia before the Armenian parliament does it,
said Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, as cited by Turkish Hurriyet
newspaper.
Sargsyan delivered a lecture at the Chatham House Institute themed
"Values and security in South Caucasus" in the frames of a work visit
to the UK.
The Armenian president said that he will invite his Azeri counterpart,
Ilham Aliyev, for the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border.
Commenting on the protocols for normalization of the Turkish-Armenian
bilateral relations, the president remarked that this may serve as
an example for solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. In his words,
the Turkish parliament should be the first to vote on and pass the
protocols.
"If instead of passing the protocols Turkey adopts a policy of
protracting the issue, we may continue delaying the process, too",
Sargsyan said.
A group of Azeri nationals were staging a protest in front of the
institute, while Sargsyan was delivering his lecture. They were
scanning and holding posters saying "Sargsyan is a murdered",
"Sargsyan is a terrorist", and etc., Hurriyet comments further.