Turkey to draft a document on Protocols

PanARMENIAN.Net - Ankara is going to send a legal reasoning on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols to the Swiss Foreign Ministry, OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairing countries and the European Union, Hurriyet Turkish newspaper quoted a diplomatic source as saying.



The document will focus on Armenia's alleged "attempt to avoid ratification of the Protocols."



According to Hurriyet, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has already contacted Switzerland, OSCE Minsk Group and the European Union to express its position on the issue. "The Swiss side described the resolution of the Armenian Constitutional Court and unexpected and inadmissible," the report says.



The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.



On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country's Organic Law.