AMENDMENTS ALLOW RA PRESIDENT TO SUSPEND RATIFICATION: TELEGRAPH

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Feb 26 2010
Armenia

Passing amendments to the RA Law on International Agreements, Armenian
parliamentarians adopted "exit strategy" from Armenia-Turkey Protocols,
the British Telegraph reads. According to the daily, this will allow
President Serzh Sargsyan "to suspend ratification and withdraw from
previously signed international agreements."

"The need for these amendments obviously stems from the current
situation with the process of ratification of the Armenia-Turkey
protocols," Telegraph quotes Armen Rustamyan — Chairman of the
Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.

The source recalls that the step undertaken by Armenian side occurred
in the light of Turkish Parliament’s protraction to ratify the
documents, however adding that both sides "traded accusations of
trying to modify the deal."