Slightest concession in relations with Turkey to lead to destructive consequences for Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - After publication of Madrid principles and the Armenian-Turkish Protocols the Armenian public must take decisive steps to prevent all negative consequences arising from these papers, Alekasnder Kananyan , a member of the initiative group of a newly establishing party "Armenian choice" told a press conference in Yerevan today.  

  

According to him, still in the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, nothing has changed and all previously sold under the program. 

  

Kananyan calls to propagate among the Armenian population that the slightest concession in the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement and the Karabakh settlement will lead to devastating consequences not only for Nagorno Karabakh, but for the Armenian statehood on the whole.



Protocols on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations have been signed on October 10, 2009 in Zurich by the foreign ministers of Armenia and Turkey, Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet Davutoglu in the presence of the foreign ministers of France, the United States, Russia and Switzerland after   a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation since 2007. According to the Protocols, diplomatic relations should be established between the two countries and the mutual border, closed by Turkey since 1993, should be opened. On January 12, 2010 Armenian Constitutional Court acknowledged the constituency of the Protocols.



Karabakh- Azerbaijani conflict started in 1988. In response to peaceful demands of the Armenians of Karabakh, constituted 80 per cent of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (Nagorny Karabakh), Azerbaijan had unleashed aggression against the peaceful population. As a result of the national-liberation war of 1991-1994 Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed. NKR Defense Army has also established a security zone around Nagorno Karabakh, including the 7 regions. On May 11, 1994, agreement was reached on the cease-fire (Bishkek Protocol). Currently, France, the United States and Russia, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are involved in the settlement of the conflict.



The Madrid document contains the proposals put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on the basic principles of a settlement. The document was presented to the Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives at the OSCE summit in the Spanish capital in November 2007.

  
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