ARFD NOT RULING OUT POSSIBILITY OF PARLIAMENT’S "WASHING HANDS" OF PROTOCOLS
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.01.2010 15:55 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA CC decision over Armenian-Turkish protocols has
legal effect only on Armenia; the protocols will become internationally
binding documents only after being ratified by Armenia’s parliament,
according to member of ARFD parliamentary group Vahan Hovhannisyan.
"The CC verdict allows for reservations and if parliament fails to do
that the document will lose sense." he told Thursday a news conference
in Yerevan, not ruling out possibility of parliament’s washing hands
of the process.
"But we allow that to happen because the parliament should treat
the issue with high sense of responsibility," ARFD parliamentarian
stressed.
With regard to the timeframes of Protocols’ being included in
Parliament’s agenda, Mr. Hovhannisyan said he had no information
about it.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
On January 12, 2010 Armenia’s Constitutional Court passed a decision
on documents’ conformability to RA Constitution.