YEREVAN. – The withdrawal of the Armenian-Turkish protocols from the parliament of Armenia does not matter at all anymore, since they already have played their positive role for Turkey.

Former MP and ex-chairman of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, analyst Hovhannes Igityan, noted the above-said at a press conference on Monday.

In his view, these protocols were not an initiative of the Armenian side, and the process associated with these documents was going the wrong way for Armenia from the very beginning.

“It was clear that Turkey shall make these protocols serve its interests,” Igityan noted. “I believe it would have been better to leave the protocols on the agenda, since some international forces may view this [recall of the documents] as Armenia’s move aimed at the failure of a process.”

On February 16, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had addressed with a letter to NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan, and informed him that he has decided to recall the Armenian-Turkish protocols—which the FMs of both countries had signed in 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland—from the parliament.