Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
 Friday


Turkey needs to save its own face: Armenia's Ashotyan on Zurich Protocols


YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS. Armen Ashotyan - chairman of the
parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs, vice-president of
the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, says the Armenian-Turkish
relations remain in a completely political, diplomatic and economic
deadlock, reports Armenpress.

During the meeting with reporters on December 22, Armen Ashotyan said
the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which were signed by the initiative of
the Armenian side, will no longer be a part of the political agenda
starting from spring of 2018.

“The activeness through which the Turkish side tries to justify the
failure of the Protocols, shows that Turkey needs to save its own
face. All efforts to save its own face are doomed to failure since
everyone knows which side failed the Armenian-Turkish normalization
process”, Armen Ashotyan said, adding that the Turkish side obviously
links the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations with the
Artsakh conflict. “Let’s once again record a historical reality that
Azerbaijan is just another Turkey in the region, for Armenia and the
Armenian people”, he said.