ARFD DISPLEASED WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT PROCESS
ArmInfo
2009-09-02 01:04:00
ArmInfo. ARF Dashnaktsutyun is displeased with the latest developments
in the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement process, says the press service
of the party.
The package of documents aimed at developing Armenian-Turkish relations
means that Armenia and the Armenian people have entered a new stage
fraught with numerous risks. ARFD has warned of them from the very
beginning. The party believes that Armenia and Turkey, as neighbors,
should take steps to normalize their relations but good neighbor
relations between Armenia and Turkey can be established only when
Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide and restores the rights of
the Armenian people.
ARFD says that the establishment of diplomatic relations without
preconditions and the opening of the border are just the first
steps to this end. Armenia’s proposal to establish relations without
preconditions is a huge concession as it is. ARFD does not accept
normalization at the expense of existence of sovereign and viable state
and the national rights of the future generations. Turkey has placed
this process at the service of its own interests and is speaking with
Armenia in language of open and hidden preconditions.
"It is obvious that the published documents contain the well-known
conditions of the Turkish party, particularly, the fact of the Armenian
Genocide is doubted, and the Armenian people’s rights having no period
of limitations are being brought to naught", the statement stresses.
Furthermore, ARFD thinks that after publishing the specified documents
Turkey continues repeating its third precondition at the official
level, i.e. Ankara will take no steps contradicting the interests of
Azerbaijan, "that is it continues conditioning the Armenian-Turkish
process by the Karabakh problem".
ARF Dashnaksutyun continues insisting that the foreign policy of
Armenia deviated from the national state line and the forecasted
processes may lead to irreversible consequences. "We call on
the Armenian society, political forces of Armenia to correctly
assess the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations,
possible negative consequences and rule out any possible irreversible
consequences by maximal solidarity",- the statement says.