Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement is purely theatrical taking into account the failure of the Zurich protocols, Azerbaijani political analyst Fikret Sadikhov said.
“Even after signing the Zurich protocols and the amendments to the Armenian Constitutional Court, which contradicted Ankara’s interests, it became clear that Turkey will not ratify the documents in the form Armenia would like to see them. Yerevan decided to make a proactive step,” Sadikhov told Trend, commenting on yesterday’s statement by the Armenian president.
Sargsyan signed a decree and suspended the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols in parliament, News-Armenia reported.
“Sargsyan signed a decree on the suspension of the ratification of the Zurich protocols signed Oct. 10. The Armenian foreign minister was charged to inform Turkey about the suspension of their ratification in accordance with the presidential decree,” the news agency reported.
“The amendments to Constitutional Court indicated that the country does not actually refuse its territorial claims to Turkey and will continue to push the resolutions on the 1915 events. But the Zurich protocols provide for the establishment of a joint commission of scholars and historians to study the events of those years,” political analyst said. “Armenia has ignored all the facts, which were laid out in the Zurich protocols. It sounds ironic, but Armenia wanted to overcome a difficult situation and the isolation in which it found itself, improve the economic situation in the country, and at the same time continue to make territorial claims against Turkey, push the resolutions on the 1915 events, and refuse to resolve the Karabakh problem, keeping Azerbaijani territory under the occupation. However, this cannot happen.”
Armenia realized that its mission to resolve its domestic problems by besting Azerbaijan and Turkey is impossible, and Ankara will never ratify the protocols in this form, the analyst said. Thus, the president decided to take a proactive step, he added.
In fact, even before yesterday’s announcement, it was clear the Zurich protocols would not be approved in the form in which they were signed in October last year, Sadikhov said.
“This is nonsense. The county’s desire to overcome a difficult situation must be associated with some compromises, especially if a country is at war with a neighboring state and this state is closely linked with Turkey. So, it is necessary to take into account many factors, fine points. If all these details are ignored and the country continues to take care of its personal well-being and does not remove its claims and ambitions from the agenda. The result of the situation happened since October last year up to now is quite obvious. Sargsyan’s statement is a purely theatrical gesture, coming from an understanding that in any case, the protocols will not be approved by the parliaments of these countries in a such form,” the analyst said.
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