PROTESTS, DEMANDS FOR RESIGNATION: SAMVEL BABAYAN FORESEES DEVELOPMENT
Tert.am
16:03 09.10.09
After the signing of the pre-signed Armenian-Turkish Protocols,
planned actions will include protests taking place in Yerevan, and
even a demand for a resignation, Dashink Party Leader, ex-foreign
defense minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Samvel Babayan stated at a press
conference today.
He is convinced the presigned Protocols can not be put into force
without a mutual concession on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh,
which, however, is impossible, according to him. "If they are able
to establish relations with Turkey and open the Armenian-Turkish
border without the Karabakh issue, I welcome it," Babayan said,
adding that it’s unlikely and the border will be opened only in case
of concessions in the Karabakh issue. But according to Babayan, it
is impossible to make concessions in that matter; he is convinced
that no one will agree to hand over Karabakh.
Characterizing the Armenian-Turkish Protocols as being pro-Turkey,
Babayan stated that he is convinced their contents were not developed
under pressure from outside forces, but resulted from negotiations
by the Armenian side. According to Babayan, this raises the question:
how, in that case, could such pro-Turkey documents have been created?