YEREVAN. – Withdrawal of Armenian-Turkish protocols from the Armenian parliament is targeted at internal domestic policy, namely ARF Dashnaktsutyun, and the Diaspora, analyst Alexander Iskandaryan believes.

“Recalling of the protocols will not lead to any dramatic foreign policy changes, because the protocols hardly had any prospects,” Iskandaryan said.

Even if we imagine that the normalization process resumes in any format, this will hardly happen in the form of protocols, he added.

As reported earlier, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Monday addressed with a letter to National Assembly (NA) Speaker Galust Sahakyan, and informed him that he has decided to recall the Armenian-Turkish protocols from the parliament.

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. Finally Turkey decided to remove the protocols from parliament’s agenda.