ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS PROTOCOLS ON RELATIONS WITH TURKEY

Big News Network.com
Feb 16 2015

RFE Monday 16th February, 2015

YEREVAN — Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has recalled from
parliament protocols on the normalization of ties and the establishment
of diplomatic relations with neighboring Turkey.

In a statement issued on February 16, Sarkisian said he had asked
parliament speaker Galust Sahakian to return the protocol to him since
“the Turkish government has no political will, distorts the spirit
and letter of the protocols, and continues its policy of setting
preconditions.”

Sarkisian also said that on the eve of commemorating the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian “genocide” in Ottoman Turkey during World
War I, “the policy of denial and rewriting history” is getting a
renewed impulse in Ankara.

Relations between Turkey and Armenia have been strained for years
over their differing accounts of mass killings of Armenians.

The protocols to normalize Yerevan-Ankara ties were signed in Zurich
on October 10, 2009.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress