ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON SUSPENSION OF THE PROCESS OF RATIFICATION OF THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS WILL NOT LEADTO CONSENSUS IN ARMENIAN SOCIETY

ArmInfo
2010-04-23 13:18:00

ArmInfo. Armenian president’s announcement on suspension of the
process of ratification of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols will not
lead to consensus in Armenian society, political expert Aleksandr
Iskandaryan told journalists today.

‘The radical opposition still remains displeased with foreign policy
conducted by the authorities. The opposition members say the president
did not demonstrate enough harshness and did not say everything he
had to. In general, the announcement was rather harsh, but its content
was not harsh at all’, – he said. Iskandaryan thinks that the Armenian
society is tired of the Armenian-Turkish process and an inconstructive
stance of Turkey. For this reason, they demand from the authorities
either suspend the process or make it harsher. ‘The problems of our
society are not only regarding the relations with Turkey. Our prior
problems are regarding the 1 March process, low legitimateness of the
authorities, whatever else but not the Armenian-Turkish relations’,
– Iskandaryan said.