ARMENIA BACKPEDALS ON NORMALIZATION OF TIES WITH TURKEY
Kuwait News Agency
Feb 17 2015
17/02/2015 | 12:37 AM | World News
ANKARA, Feb 16 (KUNA) — Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan decided
Monday to withdraw the two protocols on normalization of relations
with Turkey from the parliament.
Over the last six years the two documents remained as mere ink on
paper after they were signed in 2009 due to “lack of political will”
on the Turkish side, he said in a letter to Parliament Speaker Galust
Sahakyan.
He accused the Turkish officials of planting obstacles and raising
additional preconditions for the establishment of diplomatic ties
after a century-long tense relations, according to an Anadolu Agency
report. While reaffirming readiness to settle the relations, the
Armenian leader said “we were also ready for failure.” On April 22,
2010, the Armenian president ordered freezing the ratification of
the two US-backed protocols amid traded accusations on the 100th
anniversary of the deadly events which began in 1915.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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