There are very few people in Armenia, who believe in the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border, even the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan himself does not believe in it, the MP from ARFD Dashnaktsutyun faction, Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs Hrayr Karapetyan stated at a parliamentary briefing.

“Certainly a president should seek normalization of relations with his neighbors. However, the point is at what costs,” Karapetyan said, stressing the Armenia-Turkey Protocols should be withdrawn from the parliamentary agenda, as Turkey goes on setting preconditions to ratify the documents. According to the MP, Turkey’s Pan-Turkism policy wrecks Armenia’s all initiatives.

The parliamentarian stressed Turkey and Azerbaijan intensified their efforts to give a religious coloring to the Karabakh peace process, which is fraught with grave consequences.

“Official Yerevan should necessarily raise the issue to the international community,” Karapetyan said. He again voiced the Dashnaktsutuyin’s proposal to sign an agreement on the formation of military-strategic alliance between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. According to him, it will give a new impetus to the international recognition of Karabakh. “The recognition of Karabakh by Armenia should be the last step,” he emphasized.

In his turn, the Head of the “Heritage” parliamentary faction Stepan Safaryan underscored the Armenian people are not against the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement, but the protocols, which conflict with Armenia’s interests.