7 20.09.17 - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan partook in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in United Nations headquarters in New York Armenia will annul Turkey protocols in 2018: president September 20, 2017 - 10:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia will declare the protocols on the normalization of ties with Turkey 'null and void' in spring of 2018, president Serzh Sargsyan said in his message during the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, September 19. "We have never made the recognition of the Armenian Genocide a precondition for the normalization of the bilateral relations between Armenia and Turkey," Sargsyan said. "Moreover, it was upon the initiative of Armenia that a normalization process was launched, resulting in the conclusion of the Zürich protocols in October 2009." "Up to this day, those documents have not been ratified, instead, they have landed in some dark drawers of the official Ankara. The government of Turkey came up with preposterous preconditions for their ratification that run counter to the letter and spirit of the Protocols. I expressed the clear-cut views of the Armenian people on this issue three years ago, when I spoke from this eminent podium. "Now it's high time for additional explanations. Turkish authorities are mistaken if they think that those documents can be held hostage forever and ratified only on the most opportune occasion from their point of view. The Protocols were negotiated in certain circumstances in order to find solutions to the actually existing issues. "Armenia will declare those two Protocols null and void since they continuously lacked any positive progress towards their implementation. We will enter the spring of 2018 without those, as our experience has demonstrated, futile Protocols," Sargsyan declared. Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |