YEREVAN. –  Armenia-Turkey protocols must be thrown away already in 2014, ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Giro Manoyan told reporters.

Manoyan, Head of the Political Affairs Bureau and the Armenian Cause Office, said Turkey is using protocols to pass  them off as an initiative on normalization of relations with Armenia. In order to  get rid of this simulation, Armenia should withdraw its signature from the documents, he added.

In October 2009 Armenia and Turkey signed protocols in Zurich to normalize diplomatic relations between the states. The documents had to be ratified in both countries’ parliaments. However, in 2010 the Armenian president suspended the process due to Turkey’s non-constructive stance. Ankara set preconditions and linked the reconciliation process to resolution of the Karabakh conflict.