The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD) agrees to the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols – even if they were ratified today — but with reservations, stated Armen Rustamyan, an ARFD Executive Council member and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, RA Parliament.

“We object to the Protocols being ratified in their present form, as they pose a threat to our future and contain preconditions. If reservations avert the threats, no obstacles to the ratification remain, and the protocols will be in harmony with the Constitutional Court’s verdict,” Rustamyan said. He stressed that by submitting the protocols to Parliament President Serzh Sargsyan acted in defiance of the Constitutional Court’s verdict. “The Constitutional Court confirmed the constitutionality of the protocols – if, of course, we accept its opinion,” Rustamyan said.

The ARFD also introduced a bill that would entitle the Parliament to ratify international agreements with reservations, cancel or suspend them.

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