ASHOT MELKONYAN. “OUR POLICY WITH TURKEY BECOMES MUCH MORE PRINCIPLED AND DIGNIFIED.”

February 17 2015

President Serzh Sargsyan sent a letter dated February 16 to the
Speaker of the National Assembly Galust Sahakyan notifying about his
decision to recall the Armenia-Turkey protocols. In this regard,
Aravot.am talked to Director of the Institute of History of the
National Academy of Sciences Ashot Melkonyan. “Exactly 5 years
ago, during the general meeting of the Academy, I announced that
these statements are harmful and they should no way be ratified. I
made efforts to prove that these protocols are very harmful to us,
and we need to give them up, but the circumstances turned another
course and 5 years later, fortunately, we had the chance to recall
these protocols at the state level, because the public approach was
emphasized negative,” he said. Mr. Melkonyan is very happy that the
President recalled these Protocols from the National Assembly on the
threshold of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. “One of the
most vulnerable elements of this Protocol was that we, as a subject
of international law, are inadvertently ratifying the sinister Treaty
of Kars signed on October 11, 1921, and subsequent agreement signed
in Moscow on March 16, with which we, in fact, give up our right to
demanding. While one of the elements in these Protocols indicated that
the parties recognize the factual border existing between each other,
which means that we give up the demand forever, the historical right
towards our country and recognize Akhuryan-Arax as a Turkish border,
which is not a border from the viewpoint of the international law,
but simply a barbed wire. I think that from this prospective, our
policy with Turkey becomes much more principled and most importantly,
dignified”.

Ami CHICHAKYAN

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress