BAKU—Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu all but confirmed that Turkey is holding the Karabakh conflict resolution process in favor of Azerbaijan as a precondition to Ankara’s implementation of the Armenia-Turkey protocols.
In remarks made in Baku following a meeting with his Iranian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Cavusoglu said that as long Turkey’s conditions are not met, it would be impossible for Ankara to implement the Protocols.
“We wanted to do this on certain terms. The main thing is that Armenia leaves the occupied territories after that we shall normalize our relations,” Cavusoglu was quoted as saying.
He also found fault with Yerevan’s decision to submit the Protocols to Armenia’s Constitutional Court, http://concourt.am/english/decisions/common/pdf/850.pdf saying that Armenia’s high court “removed some important articles from the documents” without elaborating on specific provisions.
The dangerous Turkey-Armenia Protocols are back in the headlines because Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, while on an official visit to Greece, said http://asbarez.com/169267/yerevan-reiterates-end-to-turkey-armenia-protocols/ that Armenia will nullify the documents before spring, echoing a statement made by President Serzh Sarkisian, who in October told the United Nations General Assembly http://asbarez.com/166717/yerevan-will-declare-turkey-armenia-protocols-null-and-void-sarkisian-tells-un/ that Armenia will declare the Protocols null and void.
Nalbandian’s statement spurred a reactionary statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, which accused Nalbandian of distorting facts and misleading the international community.
Thanks for letting us know but it ain’t gonna happen!
Armenia have a lot to lose and little to gain, please keep the border closed and scrap the protocol.
The protocols that should never have been in the first place.
Don’t waste your time and our time …
Criminals are criminals it is in their genes…
Even God cannot change them …!!!
Sylva~MD~POETRY
protocols BULL; it was done to play with us ARMENIANS;
Turkey and Azerbaijan still and always will have the ottomam killing wish
So stay strong ;GOD BLESS OUR GENOCIDE ARMENIANS SAINTS
Keep that border firmly shut and throw away the key.
Armenia proper should be talking about the 12 eastern districts stolen by Turkey via the 1.5 murdered in the Armenian genocide. What “protocol” can ignore this fact? These people are our enemy. They not only lack any acknowledgement or any apology but lack any sort of basic remorse.