ARFD demands invalidation of Armenian-Turkish protocols
19:46 / 01/11/2010
The participants of a rally and following march held in Yerevan today demanded that the RA Constitutional Court invalidate the Armenian-Turkish protocols as unconstitutional or partially unconstitutional. The demand was incorporated in statement read aloud in front of the RA Constitutional Court.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD) states that, despite the commitments the Armenian authorities assumed, the protocols signed on October 10 contain at least three preconditions set by the Turkish side. In its message to the RA Constitutional Court the ARF points out that the implementation of the protocols will out an end to the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and create legal underpinnings for ruling out any challenges to the inviolability of the present-day Armenian-Turkish border thereby consolidating the illegal Treaties of Kars and Moscow. The third precondition is, according to the ARF, are attempts to get a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Azerbaijan’s favor by linking the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
With torches burning, the demonstrators approved the message, which, according to them, contains a list of violations of procedures of initialing and signing the Armenian-Turkish protocols.
Tomorrow the RA Constitutional Court is to start considering the issue of constitutionality of the protocols. On this occasion the supporters of one of the nationalist parties gathered near the monument to Stepan Shahumyan, one of the companions of Vladimir Lenin and leader of the Baku commune. They must have forgotten about their long-standing confrontation with Bolsheviks. Among the speakers were Chairman of the Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia Harutyun Arakelyan and Chairman of the New Times Party Aram Karapetyan. The leaders of the Heritage Party attended the rally as well. Carrying placards with appeals for rejecting the Armenian-Turkish protocols and singing patriotic songs composed early last century, the participants marched from Marshtots Avenue to the RA Constitutional Court.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD) states that, despite the commitments the Armenian authorities assumed, the protocols signed on October 10 contain at least three preconditions set by the Turkish side. In its message to the RA Constitutional Court the ARF points out that the implementation of the protocols will out an end to the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and create legal underpinnings for ruling out any challenges to the inviolability of the present-day Armenian-Turkish border thereby consolidating the illegal Treaties of Kars and Moscow. The third precondition is, according to the ARF, are attempts to get a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Azerbaijan’s favor by linking the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
With torches burning, the demonstrators approved the message, which, according to them, contains a list of violations of procedures of initialing and signing the Armenian-Turkish protocols.
Tomorrow the RA Constitutional Court is to start considering the issue of constitutionality of the protocols. On this occasion the supporters of one of the nationalist parties gathered near the monument to Stepan Shahumyan, one of the companions of Vladimir Lenin and leader of the Baku commune. They must have forgotten about their long-standing confrontation with Bolsheviks. Among the speakers were Chairman of the Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia Harutyun Arakelyan and Chairman of the New Times Party Aram Karapetyan. The leaders of the Heritage Party attended the rally as well. Carrying placards with appeals for rejecting the Armenian-Turkish protocols and singing patriotic songs composed early last century, the participants marched from Marshtots Avenue to the RA Constitutional Court.
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