In a private conversation with ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction leader Vahan Hovhannisyan, a U.S. high ranking official confessed that in his opinion compared to Armenia, Turkey is more democratic, ARFD leader said at the RA National Assembly briefing.

“I must say it is our fault: with our fabricated election results, corruption and bribery we give the foreigners such impression, and we should make the relevant inferences. We have to change everything in our country, carry out the necessary reforms urging incumbent or future authorities (most probably other authorities) to observe state interests,” Hovhannisyan maintained. However, ARFD leader stressed that statements voiced by Turkish leadership and Erdogan’s recent threats about deportation of Armenians will remove the scales from international community eyes on the bare of Turkish democracy.

“Now I would like to refer to enthusiastic statements by Armenian authorities on Genocide recognition by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Swedish and Catalonian Parliaments. Representatives of pro-governmental parties try to put it in as an achievement of Armenian leadership policy and initiative on Armenia-Turkey rapprochement in particular. As a representative of political force directly involved in Armenian Genocide recognition lobbying abroad, I can declare that after the Armenia-Turkey reconciliation process launch, Genocide recognition by international parliaments became more complicated,” Hovhannisyan added.

He also noted that debates in the U.S. House Committee prove this, as almost all Congressmen emphasized that Genocide Resolution’s adoption is unadvisable while Armenia-Turkey dialogue is underway. “Incidentally, Congressman from Solomon Islands whose vote was casting concurs with this. What it costed us to have that vote in known to us only,” MP stated.

Speaking of the U.S. stance on Protocols’ ratification, Hovhannisyan said that it makes no difference for Washington who will ratify them first. “However, I do insist that it is high time for Armenia to recall the signature from the Protocols,” he concluded.

A.G.