Next day after the Protocols were signed in Zurich, official Ankara gave to understand that there are some obstacles on the way to implementation, The Wall Street Journal reads.

“Saturday's long-awaited signing in Switzerland almost didn't happen due to disagreements over what each side would say at the ceremony. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov intervened with dramatic last-minute mediation. The signing in Zurich went ahead three hours late. Diplomats said the compromise to get the accord approved was that neither side made any statement.

But suspicions in Armenia were strong Sunday that Turkey had wanted to make clear a linkage between implementing the accord and movement from Armenia to resolve a territorial conflict with its neighbor, Turkic-speaking Azerbaijan.

On Sunday, Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed the linkage, though he remained vague on what Armenia would have to do.

Mr. Erdogan underlined that the agreement still needs to be ratified by the parliaments of Armenia and Turkey to take effect. He said Turkish ratification is more likely if it becomes clear that Armenia and Azerbaijan have begun ‘to look for a resolution to their problems’,” the article reads.

The Wall Street Journal underlines that Erdogan will be pressurized by Turkish public opinion and quotes David Babayan, adviser to Nagorno-Karabakh de facto President: “Officially there is no mention of Karabakh in the protocols, but some people think a covert deal has been done.”

“Saturday's accord is highly sensitive in Armenia and among the large Armenian Diaspora because it would establish a joint history commission to look into the issue of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians massacred around 1915 in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Most Western historians agree with Armenia that the killings amounted to Genocide. But Turkey strongly refutes the label, and some Armenians worry Turkey will use the history commission to push its case that both sides committed atrocities in what amounted to civil war,” the daily says, commenting on Armenian Diaspora stance.

“The accord also would affirm the current Turkey-Armenia border, set in a 1921 treaty between Turkey and Russia.”