TURKEY WILL HAVE TO RATIFY PROTOCOLS

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.02.2010 18:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Gagik Minasyan, a member of the Republican Party
of Armenia, said that RA President Serzh Sargsyan presented three
aspects of Armenia’s foreign policy in his address in Chatham House,
the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

"These are the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations,
Nagorno Karabakh talks and international recognition of the Armenian
Genocide. Armenia has registered progress in all three aspects," Mr.

Minasyan said during a joint news conference with ANC member Karapet
Rubinyan.

"The President made it clear that Karabakh conflict resolution should
base on three principles of the international law: the right of nations
to self-determination, territorial integrity and non-use of force,"
Mr. Minasyan said.

As to the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, he said Turkey will have
to ratify them. "Ratification failure will entail a new wave of
recognition of the Armenian Genocide," he said.

For his part, Karapet Rubinyan remarked that the Armenian President
said nothing new as regard the Karabakh conflict settlement. He also
emphasized that if Ankara doesn’t ratify the Protocols, the relations
between Armenia and Turkey will worsen. "It will set a precedent
that the Armenian authorities agreed to form of a joint commission
of historians on the Genocide issue," he said.

Mr. Minasyan, however, objected the opinion, saying that Armenian
Genocide can’t be a topic of discussion and Armenia will be consistent
for its international recognition.