YEREVAN. - No new moves are expected in Armenia-Turkey reconciliation process in the near future, Head of Noravank foundation, Armenian research center, Gagik Harutunyan.told reporters on Friday.

“I believe the accords signed in Zirich were a positive step to Armenia, as we showed our readiness to hold talks. However, the likelihood of fruitful talks was small at the very beginning. I think no new moves are expected in the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey in the near future. Meanwhile, as the saying goes never say never,” Harutyunyan noted. He also emphasized Armenia has all cards to say Yerevan fulfilled its commitments properly unlike Turkey.

As reported earlier, the Turkish Grand National Assembly has recently withdrawn the Armenia-Turkey Protocols from its agenda.

October 10, 2009, in Zurich, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey signed the “Protocol on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations” and “Protocol for the development of bilateral relations”, which needed to be ratified by the parliaments of the two countries. However, this did not happen.

The signing ceremony was attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and France Bernard Kouchner, as well as Secretary General of the Council of the European Union Javier Solana. The signing ceremony was at the center of the world’s attention, broadcast on 70 TV channels.

However, on December 7, 2009, Turkey linked the Armenian-Turkish process to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. During a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara would not ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols without resolution of the Karabakh conflict. On April 22, 2010, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree suspending the ratification process.