YEREVAN. – The very presence of Armenia-Turkey protocols is a failure of the Armenian diplomacy, head of ANC parliamentary faction Levon Zurabyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He said the protocols provided Turkey with what the country needed: by agreeing to set up a commission of historians the Armenian side in fact questioned the fact of Genocide.

“This is what Turkey needed to slow down the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” Zurabyan noted.

The opposition MP is confident that U.S., to some extent, solved a local problem thanks to so-called football diplomacy: negated the pressure of the Armenian lobby on Congress and the White House.

“The only party not winning anything is Armenia. The only person who won is Serzh Sargsyan, as using this initiative, he got the support of the international community to prolong his stay in office,” Zurabyan concluded.