RUBEN HAKOBYAN: BORDER OPENING PROCESS DID NOT INSPIRE CONFIDENCE FROM THE OUTSET
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
06.08.2009 19:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Armenian-Turkish normalization process can be said
to have entered a deadlock. In general, the process did not inspire
confidence from the outset," Ruben Hakobyan, Head of Armenian Center
for Analytical Studies, told a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent.
Turkey cannot open the border without preconditions related to NKR
problem, the expert said, adding that Turkey is a parliamentary
country where the decisive word belongs to the Prime Minister. The
speaker also noted that during the whole process of Armenian-Turkish
ties normalization Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the
importance preconditions.
With regard to RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s recent statement on his
going to Turkey only in case the border is opened or real steps are
undertaken towards lifting blockade, the expert said he didn’t attach
importance to that, as the border may be opened for a short time and
then be closed again.