NEW TIMES PARTY: PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA VIOLATES CONSTITUTION

ArmInfo
2010-04-20 12:26:00

ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan submitted the
Armenian-Turkish Protocols to the National Assembly of Armenia for
ratification without making relevant amendments to the Protocols
as required by the Constitutional Court of Armenia. The president,
hereby, did not fulfill the decision by the Constitutional Court and
violated the points 5,6,100 and 102 of the Constitution of Armenia,
says the letter of the New Times Party Board to Chairman of the
Constitutional Court of Armenia Gagik Haroutiunyan.

On January 12 2010 the Constitutional Court of Armenia recognized
the commitments in the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in compliance with
the Constitution of Armenia. The CC resumed that the commitments in
the Protocols are of mutual interstate interest and cannot apply to
third countries. The CC highlighted that the prior provision in the
Protocols is opening of the actual Armenian-Turkish border and all
the other commitments will obtain legal force only after the border is
open. Afterwards, Foreign Minister of Turkey said that the Armenian CC
resolution contains preconditions and provisions contradicting to the
Protocols signed in Zurich on October 10 2009. To come into effect,
the protocols are to be ratified by the two countries’ parliaments.