ACCORDING TO RUBEN SAFRASTIAN, TURKISH DIPLOMACY HAS NO TACTICS OF LONG-TERM POLICY

NOYAN TAPAN
MARCH 29, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MARCH 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Though the Turkish diplomacy managed
to lead the process of ratification of the protocols up the blind
alley, the Armenian side appeared in a favorable situation under
the condition of deadlock. Director of the RA National Academy of
Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies, Turkologist Ruben Safrastian
expressed such an opinion at a March 29 press conference. "We showed
the world that we treat seriously the protocols we had signed,"
he said mentioning that we managed to put on the Armenian-Turkish
negotiations table protocols signed without preconditions.

The current normalization process of Armenian-Turkish relations showed
that the Turkish diplomacy has no tactics of long-term policy.

According to R. Safrastian, with such policy the Turkish diplomacy
will not manage "to come out of the formed situation unscathed and
to lay the blame on Armenia."

And overcoming the deadlock, according to R. Safrastian, depends
on Turkey’s further steps. He mentioned that we should not yet draw
final conclusions and show haste in the issue of ratification of the
Armenian-Turkish protocols: under the circumstances the Armenian side
has no need to ratify the protocols the first. "It will be wrong if
we are the first to ratify the protocols," R. Safrastian said.