POWER IS CONFUSED

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11:03:49 – 24/02/2010

Representative of the ARF Supreme Body, Head of the NA commission
on foreign relations Armen Rustamyan yesterday answered Lragir.am
questions.

Initially, it was stated that Armenia is not going to ratify
the Armenian and Turkish protocols as long as Turkey does not do
that. Now the protocols are in the Armenian National Assembly. Is
it nevertheless possible that Armenia ratifies the protocols first
to show to the international society that it has fulfilled its duty
and the ball is in the Turkish field?

I do not think Armenia will ratify the protocols first. My opinion is
that it will be a wrong step. On the contrary, we now need additional
tools, if necessary, to suspend or terminate the Armenian-Turkish
process. In our opinion, this necessity is already felt for a
long time but nevertheless we need to fit this logic. It is my deep
conviction that the power is confused, and these steps mean that they
are entangled in their tactics.

Will this process reach its logical conclusion? Will the Armenian
and Turkish protocols be ratified? And will the border be opened?

The logic shows that the process has reached the point from where
it was started. As the Turkish side announced, the border will be
opened when the cause of its closure disappears. As they think, the
cause is the NKR issue. That is, they returned to the starting point
and say that we are talking about the phenomenon -one nation – two
states, and we do not need to deceive ourselves by convincing that the
Turkish-Azeri tandem does not exist. Both countries issue statements in
this logic affirming that the NKR issue settlement is to be speeded up.

Republican members have repeatedly stated that they do not take for
serious those statements.

In this case, they have to admit that the process has failed.

Interview by ARMAN GALOYAN