ANKARA SENDS MESSAGE TO YEREVAN: NO LINK BETWEEN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION AND PROTOCOLS?
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16:30 ~U 11.03.10
Since the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs narrowly passed
H.Res.252 recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Ankara is sending the
first message to Yerevan – though an unofficial one.
Ankara, highlighting that the adoption of the Genocide Resolution and
the ratification of Armenia-Turkey Protocols are independent processes,
mentions that the Protocols are not "dead" and expects that Yerevan
will take some steps regarding the ruling by Armenia’s Constitutional
Court, reports Today’s Zaman, citing anonymous diplomatic sources.
According to the Turkish publication, sources say that the ratification
of the Protocols will continue, adding that what Ankara expects from
Yerevan in relation to the Constitutional Court’s ruling is written
guarantees or a political obligation.
At the same time, the paper recalls that after the adoption of
Armenian Genocide Resolution the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister and
his assistant went to Russia and presented Turkey’s expectations on
the Nagorno-Karabakh resolution and also discussed possible ways to
secure progress in the settlement of this conflict.