“Armenian National Congress has always had diverse judgments, whereas Pan-Armenian National Movement never doubted that ‘football diplomacy’ is doomed to failure,” national movement member Hovhannes Igityan told the journalists on February 5.

According to him, by the end of Armenia-Turkey reconciliation both sides will be galvanized against each other even more than in the beginning. “It is nonsense, as the process called for bringing about normalization will take a reverse effect,” Igityan said, adding that not a single country recognized by international community an invader can succeed in foreign policy.

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