UNREADY FLIRTATION WITH TURKEY

Lragir.am
6/05/10

The first phase of the Armenian and Turkish process ended in favor of
Turkey, said the former NKR foreign minister Arman Melikyan. Melikyan
says Turkey managed to show to the international society that Armenia
"in essence, reconciled with the events taken place in the region after
the first war and the territorial losses of Armenia". Arman Melikyan
says that today Turkey refers to the treaty of Kars in connection
with Nakhidjevan issue, noting that Turkey will go one making such
steps, while Armenia is not ready for them either ideologically or
intellectually. "I do not mean the governmental camp only. I mean the
public too, because I do not see discussions in this connections",
says Arman Melikyan.

Member of Armenian National Congress, Chair of Liberal party Hovhannes
Hovhannisyan agreed with Arman Melikyan. He stated that the republic
of Armenia was not ready for a "flirtation" with Turkey. According to
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, democratic reforms were required in Armenia,
a power formed through public will, public consensus and only after an
initiative to normalize relations with Turkey. Hovhannisyan reiterated
that Serge Sargsyan’s initiative was aimed only to cover the lack of
his home legitimacy with foreign one.

Arman Melikyan noted that now Armenia is not a geopolitical factor,
but a means which will do everything it is said to. According to him,
after the upcoming visit of Medvedev to Turkey, Armenia will be said
what to do. Melikyan says if Armenia really wants to become a factor,
it has to state in public that the provisions of the Kars treaty are
no longer in force. According to him, so Armenia will create a new
situation in the region becoming a significant factor.

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan also thinks that Armenia is not independent. He
thinks Armenia takes decisions only with the approval of foreign
forces, just like, probably, in case of the suspension of the Armenian
and Turkish protocols’ ratification process.