PROTOCOLS EXIST DE JURE BUT DEAD DE FACTO: AGHVAN VARDANYAN

Tert.am
28.04.10

"The Armenia-Turkey Protocols do not exist in practice any more.

Though in a diplomatic language, but that is what was said in Serzh
Sargsyan’s latest speech. I think that the Protocols will not be
discussed in that form. They exist de jure, but are dead de facto,"
member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutiun, ARF-D)
and former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Aghvan Vardanyan said
a press conference today.

In his words Armenia could have also "closed the door." i.e. withdraw
its signature from the Protocols, "which would be the right thing to
do." But "unfortunately, we are not yet the country that has so much
power, self-dependency."

"We are not yet Turkey," said Vardanyan, adding that the topic is
already off the agenda.

Vardanyan also said that if the Protocols leave room for the two sides
to make completely opposite statements about them, then it testifies
to the fact that they are badly-negotiated documents.

Regardless what the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said,
according to Vardanyan, the facts prove something else.