"ARF Dashnaktsutyun demands Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan’s resignation, as he is the main adviser to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan for foreign policy issues. It is likely, the events will develop in a way that ARFD comes to the upshot on the necessity of both officials’ resignation, ARFD bureau representative Hrant Margaryan stated at the September 8 press conference referring to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

ARFD does not demand the president’s dismissal as it will cause destabilization in the country, Margaryan outlined. “We conduct correct political struggle for nothing… but to keep the country out of political tempests. We displayed correctness towards the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, but he himself broke the agreements”, ARFD representative noted. Asked whether the party will vacate its seat in case if the Parliament ratifies the Armenian-Turkish Protocols without ARFD’s proposed amendments, Margaryan said: “What we are supposed to do, set ourselves on fire? Why to give up a job in the institution that enables to voice the existing problems”.