ARMENIA SLAMS TURKISH PRECONDITIONS, ACCUSES ANKARA OF SPREADING “FALSE INFORMATION”
NEWS | 26.02.15 | 09:59
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President Sargsyan withdraws Armenian-Turkish protocols from parliament
Armenia has rejected the latest Turkish call for ending “the occupation
of Azerbaijan” as a precondition for the ratification of the diplomatic
protocols signed between the two countries in 2009.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu repeated that precondition
during his visit to Baku on Wednesday.
At a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart,
Cavusoglu claimed that “the whole world knows about the precondition to
Armenia”. He also accused Yerevan of failing “the test of sincerity”
and said that the decision by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to
withdrawal the protocols from the parliament, therefore, was “of
no importance”.
Asked by Tert.am to comment on these statements, Armenia’s Deputy
Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said: “It is at least perplexing
that the Turkish delegation that conducted the negotiations around
the protocols, according to Cavusoglu, did not know about the Turkish
preconditions “known to the whole world”. To speak about sincerity
by spreading the kind of false information is at least strange,
but at the same time it is typical of Turkish authorities.”
The Armenian diplomat stressed that the international community has
also favored Yerevan’s position that Armenian-Turkish relations should
be normalized without preconditions.
On February 16, the Armenian president recalled the protocols on the
normalization of ties and the establishment of diplomatic relations
with Turkey from parliament. He said “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 centennial
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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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