Ankara's destructive position was enough for Yerevan to step away of ProtocolsOctober 12, 2009 - 17:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish side's destructive position during Protocol signing ceremony testifies to the fact that Turkey started negotiations with Armenia for realizing its own preconditions, Kiro Manoyan, ARFD Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office director told a news conference in Yerevan. "The presence of Russian, U.S., French and Swiss Foreign Ministers and EU representatives and all their efforts towards achieving Protocol signing are actually pressure against Armenian side," Hay Dat office director said. At that he noted that delay in Protocol signing was caused by Turkish side's desire to make changes not only in Davutoglu's speech but also in Protocol texts. That might have been enough for Armenia side to step away from Protocols," Manoyan stressed.On Saturday, October 10, Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu signed initialed Protocols on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. the ceremony took place in presence of Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Armenia's Ambassador to Switzerland Charles Aznavour, Turkey's Ambassador to Switzerland Oguz Demiral, Slovenia's Foreign Minister and Chair of CoE Committee of Ministers Samuel Zbogar. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |