Gagik Harutyunyan: Armenia faces serious challenge

PanARMENIAN.Net - Should all countries follow protocols they signed, we'd live in absolute peace right now, Head of Noravank Scientific Research Center Gagik Harutyunyan told a news conference in Yerevan. According to him, Protocols must not be fetishized. "Much could alter after they've been signed, as history shows," Gagik Harutyunyan said, citing 1975 Helsinki agreement as an example.



On the positive side, he noted that the Protocols will stimulate RA economy development, and cause a rift in Azeri -Turkish relations.



"By normalizing ties with Armenia, Turkey seeks to shed the image of a criminal," Head of Noravank Center said, accusing Turkey of the Genocide of Armenians and Pontian Greeks.



According to him, Armenia is currently at the crossroads: on one hand, it could abandon negotiations, which is an easy way; on the other hand, Armenia could agree to continue talks and use its recourses to meet competition with Turkey. "Yerevan chose the second way and now faces a serious challenge," Gagik Harutyunyan noted.