The RA Constitutional Court returned a verdict confirming the constitutionality of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, attaching a wordy declaration to it. Although the declaration has no legal force, the state propaganda and the “opposition” Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF) hyped it up as a “neutralizer of Turkey’s preconditions,” regarding it as “a correction of diplomatic blunders,” reads a statement issued by the Armenian National Congress (ANC).

According to the ANC, the Constitutional Court pit on a show by returning a disgraceful verdict. “That trick is intended for ‘domestic use’, slurring over the blunder and saving of the ‘opposition’ Dashnaktsutyun may turn into a trap for Armenia,” the statement reads. The RA Constitutional Court gave Turkey an expensive present, the ANC states. “Like the Armenian authorities, the Turkish authorities take the declaration attached to the verdict seriously,” statement reads. After Turkey “discovers” preconditions and points “running counter” to the protocols, it will demand the revision of the verdict and lay the responsibility for the failure of the process on Armenia.

“After getting as much as it wanted from the signing of the protocols, Turkey has got ‘a legal’ pretext for not providing Armenia with the minimum (the reopening of roads), which would be possible only after the protocols are ratified,” the statement says.

The ANC also states that “falling into one more trap is the result of not only illegitimacy of the incumbent Armenian authorities, but also complete incompetence of the relevant Armenian officials. New failures are inevitable as long as, according to the most important representative of the ruling regime, the following standard is in effect there: you do not have to be a man of great intellect to become a politician. This standard actually applies to all the officials at all the level,” says the statement.

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