Armenia is consecutive in its intention to ratify the Protocols and all statements that CC made certain amendments to the documents are ridiculous, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at the press conference in Yerevan.

According to him, after the documents signing in Zurich, the ratification process was frozen by Turkey. He expressed confidence that Turks will not look for artificial reasons to protract the ratification. “I do not think that international community will bear with intension to shift the whole blame on Armenia,” FM stated, adding that few in Turkey will believe it either. “We hope that Turkey will ratify the Protocols and stop speaking the language of preconditions, as well as seek for inexistent links with other processes,” he underlined.

January 12, RA Constitutional Court ruled Armenia-Turkey Protocols constitutional. Under the decision the Protocols cannot be interpreted and implemented in the way that RA Constitution or 11th provision of Armenian Declaration on Independence is violated. The 11th provision reads: “The Republic of Armenia stands in support of the task of achieving international recognition of the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia.” It drew the indignation of Turkish Foreign Ministry that blamed Yerevan on violation of the principles stipulated in the Protocols. Later, Nalbandian had a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, however RA Foreign Minster recommended to learn Davutoglu’s replies from Turkish sources.

A.G.