The Armenian Parliament must not ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, as the sides interpret them in different ways, Giro Manoyan, Head of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Central Office, Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD), told a press conference. According to the Armenian side, the Armenian Genocide will not be discussed, whereas the Turkish side states the subcommittee to be formed under the Protocols is supposed to hold a joint discussion of the problem.

Manoyan is sure that Turkey will not ratify the Protocols in the near future – it will delay the process under new pretexts. “The same happened with the publication of the Protocols. They had been prepared but shelved from April 22 to August 31. It was not until Turkey fixed the day that they were published,” Manoyan said. He pointed out Ankara needs to regularly show activity in the Armenia-Turkey normalization process.

Manoyan does not rule out Turkey’s ratifying the Protocols if Turkey and Azerbaijan agree on the fundamental principles of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict before.