Leader of New Times believes that Armenia must impose preconditions, not Turkey

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Along with the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, the Armenian authorities to bring the country to a very complicated and hard phase of the political realities," Aram Karapetyan , the leader of the New Times political party told a press conference today in Yerevan.



According to Mr. Karapetyan, in this process Turkey and Azerbaijan are playing a joint game, and ultimately, the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border will be conditioned by the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. "Although the Armenian leadership assure that the protocol has nothing about Nagorno Karabakh, but that precondition is imposed, as evidenced by numerous statements of senior Turkish officials," he said.



Mr. Karapetyan also stressed that in the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey, Armenia must impose preconditions, not Turkey. "It is surprising that Armenia is not putting the precondition to recognize the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish side before helding talks over the opening of borders, since one and half million Armenians were annihilated by Turkey," Aram Karapetyan said.



Aram Karapetyan believes that before Armenia and Turkey normalize relations, Armenia should put two preconditions against the Turkish side: to recognize the Armenian Genocide and do not condition opening of borders by the Nagorno Karabakh problem.