THE BORDERS REOPENING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR RECOGNITION
Aysor
Sept 14 2009
Armenia
"The opinion that non-recognition of borders has something in common
with the diplomatic relations is a big mistake. The border reopening
has nothing to do with diplomatic ties, on the one hand, and with
the recognition of borders, on the other," said ARF leader, Vahan
Hovhannisyan to journalists.
In evidence Mr. Hovhannisyan listed a number of countries who have
"disputed issues in borders, but don’t even have a single world about
them in documents establishing bilateral ties."
He marked that the establishment of diplomatic relations is under
the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which hasn’t a single
world about recognition of mutual borders or territorial integrity."
"Diplomatic relations call for recognition of each other as states,
and one recognizes borders regarding to a special agreement," explained
Mr. Hovhannisyan
According to ARF leader the borders reopening which "we fully support"
raises some questions. He noted that Turkey’s economic legislation
"protects Turkish producers and entrepreneurs perfectly, and that of
ours does not, so we have a large work to do in this field."
What for hunger strike and sit-down protest organized byARF, then,
according to Mr. Hovhannisyan, those are right actions because of
their features of demonstration effect and their importance for
civilized pressure."
He again stated that ARF doesn’t raise question of resignation of
Armenia’s President but noted that "the protest and pressure on
authorities will grow proportionally with authority’s mistakes."