ANKARA’S REASONS FOR NON-RATIFICATION OF PROTOCOLS WON’T BE TAKEN NORMALLY

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.03.2010 13:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia-Turkey rapprochement started as an open
process and must be completed in the same manner, lest it should
remind a farce, OSCE PA Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh
and Georgia, President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker said.

At 73rd NATO PA Rose-Roth seminar in Yerevan, Goran Lennmarker
urged Armenia and Turkey to expedite Protocols ratification. "We
understand there are many impediments on the way to ratification,
but the process is still very important. I’ve repeatedly told the
Turkish side that one can always find reasons for non- ratification,
still they won’t be taken normally," Goran Lennmarker stressed.

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.