Only way to settle Armenia-Turkey relations – to ratify protocols, MFA spokesperson

The only way to settle Armenia-Turkey relations, is to ratify and implement the Armenian-Turkish protocols, spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry Tigran Balayan told Tert.am, commenting on the statement of the President of Turkey Abdullah Gul about the wide-scale works for the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations.
 
According to Turkish haber7 web site, Turkish president said he does not consider the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations completely exhausted. "We are carrying out a wide-scale work and have given assignments to state and civil organizations," he said.
 
Asked whether Gul's statement speaks of new contacts, new initiatives, member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc Vladimir Karapetyan said this statement should first of all be either confirmed or refuted by the Armenia's Foreign Ministry explaining whether there are contacts or not.
 
Learning about the response of the ministry's spokesman, Karapetyan said, "We have many times stressed that the protocols are quite disputable and the existence of a clause on setting a committee of historians, does not stem from Armenia's interests and I am concerned with such comment of the Ministry," Vladimir Karapetyan said.   Read more... (192 words)

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