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PRESS RELEASE
_For immediate release_
MONDAY 26 APRIL 2010
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ARMENIA ` TURKEY: TURKISH PRECONDITIONS FREEZE PROTOCOLS
The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy welcomes
with overwhelming satisfaction, the decision of Armenia to freeze the
ratification of the protocols signed with Turkey by the Armenian
Parliament.
One year after the beginning of the process, the Armenian President,
Serge Sarkissian, while reaffirming his attachment with the
normalisation of relations with Turkey, reported the absence in Turkey
of a favourable environment, and of leaders ready to engage in this
process. Indeed, the Turkish leaders had put additional conditions,
without agreement between the two countries, to the ratification of
these protocols, while thus hoping to keep Armenia under pressure.
`The first condition to succeed such negotiations is the bona fide
of it’s contents: however, we had already observed an obvious
imbalance: Armenia clearly expected for this situation to be
normalised, and Turkey, whom we denounced as having leaders with a
serious lack of sincerity’ declared Hilda Tchoboian, chairwoman of
the European Armenian Federation.
The European Armenian Federation recalls that on April 6th,
Catherine Ashton, the EU High representative for foreign affairs and
security policy affirmed the EU support for the protocols by
indicating, in accordance with the agreements, that the latter should
be applied with no preconditions.
`The conditions of a true agreement between the two countries were
distorted in advance: Armenia had to pay too high a price for the
lifting of the Turkish blockade,’ added Hilda Tchoboian. `This
decision confirms that Armenia had been duped by Turkey who wants to
maintain Armenia as a neighbour hostage’.
The Federation recalls that with this attitude, Turkey is infringing
the Copenhagen criteria, which stipulate that the applicant countries
should establish good relations with their neighbouring countries.
`We invite the European Union to take note of Turkish
responsibility for the failure of these agreements; and to take
effective and rapid measures for the lifting of the blockade on
Armenia,’ concluded Hilda Tchoboian.
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