RUBEN SAFRASTYAN: SOONER OR LATER NEW ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROCESS WILL START

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
29.03.2010 17:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey does not seek to ratify the Armenian-Turkish
protocols, Professor Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of
Oriental Studies of RA NAS told a news conference in Yerevan.

According to him, Turkey by its diplomatic steps drove the
Armenian-Turkish process to a deadlock.

"If this process does not find its logical conclusion, sooner or
later a new Armenian-Turkish process will start," Safrastyan said.

"It depends on Turkey, whether the Armenian-Turkish process to get
out of the deadlock or not," Ruben Safrastyan said. To process out
of the impasse, Ankara should take steps to demonstrate its interest
in continuation of that process, the expert concluded.

According to Ruben Safrastyan, Armenia should not be the first to
ratify the Protocols, and wait for Turkey’s action.

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.

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.