"REASONABLE TIME FRAME" INTERPRETED DIFFERENTLY BY ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2010 16:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian parliament has to pass law on "reasonable
time frame" to avoid different interpretation of the term by RA
government and the opposition, Heritage parliamentary group leader
Stepan Safaryan stated ironically.
"The Armenian government keeps mentioning reasonable time frame,
never specifying the expiry term," he said when commenting on the
statement Armenian president made during a conversation with Turkish
Foreign Minister in Kyiv.
"Official Yerevan should have withdrawn from reconciliation process
as soon as it became clear that Turkey’s position on Armenia and NKR
remains unchanged," he noted.
Heritage parliamentary group leader expressed concerns the
Armenian Genocide issue might become a hostage to Turkey’s delays
in ratification, in case Armenia agrees to be the first to ratify
the Protocols.
Founded in 2002, Heritage , a National Liberal Party, is national by
its roots, liberal in its economic principle, and an advocate of the
democratic system of governance and due process for its citizens. The
party’s objective is the development of Armenia as a democratic,
lawful, and rights-based country that anchors its domestic and foreign
policies in the nation’s sovereign interest. During the party’s Third
Congress on May 30, 2005, Raffi K. Hovannisian was elected chairman.
The other eight members of the party board were elected by secret
vote. Since 2009, the party chairman is Armen Martirosyan.
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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
