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ARF MP Minasyan - Court's Ruling Has Minimized the Protocols' Threats
At a debate held today between ARF MP Artzvik Minasyan and Republican Party MP Gagik Melikyan, the former stated that the recent Constitutional Court ruling "at least safeguarded Armenia from a minimum of threats that the people are talking about".He went on to say, however, that they would be able to categorically state that the preconditions set down in the Protocols would not take effect only if and when the National Assembly refused to ratify them or if disclaimers where included in the documents.
"If the ruckus raised by Turkey, following the ruling by the Constitutional Court, was to be expected, then I find the approach taken by some of our Armenian analysts to downplay the significance of the ruling and describe it as an internal matter as peculiar at best," MP Minasyan noted.
MP Melikyan stated that the Court’s ruling came as a ‘cold shower’ to many, including the Turkish authorities, who have constantly strived to negotiate with Armenia using a lexicon of preconditions and to interpret them according to their interests.
"I tend to believe that the Court’s ruling indeed showed that there were preconditions included in the Protocols. I’m also convinced that even if the Court turned the Protocols down, Turkey would have looked for any excuse to link its delay in ratifying them to the Armenian authorities. My opinion is that Turkey was coerced into signing the documents," added MP Melikyan.
He argued that the Court’s ruling proved once again that the ongoing process of the international recognition of the Genocide is of paramount importance to Armenia and that any Turkish attempts to force Armenia to take measures counter to the constitution were doomed to failure.
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