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Serzh Sargsyan: Official Yerevan is seriously considering issue of recalling Armenian-Turkish Protocols from parliament

25 September 2014 10:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. “Official Yerevan is seriously considering the issue of recalling the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from the parliament”, President Serzh Sargsyan stated in his speech at the 69^th session of the UN General Assembly, APA reports quoting Armenian media.

“Armenia has never conditioned the normalization of the bilateral relations with Turkey by recognition of the “Armenian Genocide”. In fact, Armenia was the party that initiated such a process which culminated in the signing of the Zurich Protocols. However, those Protocols have been shelved for years now awaiting ratification in the Turkish Parliament. Ankara declares publicly that it will ratify those Protocols only if Armenians cede Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. In Armenia and Karabakh ordinary people often just retort to such preconditions: “To hell with your ratification.” It is in these circumstances that currently the official Yerevan is seriously considering the issue of recalling the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from the parliament,” President Sargsyan stated”, Sargsyan said.