Game is coming to its end, Armenia beating Turkey all ends up – Eduard Sharmazanov
Vice-Speaker of Armenia’s Parliament and Spokesman for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov commented on the part on the Armenian-Turkish relations in Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s speech at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly.
According to him, the game is coming to its end, with Armenia beating Turkey all ends up.
“Yes, years ago, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the ball was in Turkey’s court. Moreover, later Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said that the reasonable timeframe had a deadline. And you could see that by mentioning recall of the Armenian-Turkish protocols he suggested that the deadline is gradually approaching.”
With respect to the phrase “to hell with your ratification” the Armenian president used during his speech, Mr Sharmazanov said:
“We do not say ‘to hell with it,’ but we say that if Turkey keeps on disregarding the positions of not only Armenia, but also the international community, it shows its disrespect not only for Armenia’s position, but also for the positions of the mediators at the signing of the protocols in Zurich. It, first of all, disregards its own political decision by setting preconditions. Moreover, the Armenian president clearly stated in New York that any bargaining over our Homeland was out of the question. The Turkish political elite are gravely mistaken if they think one fine day may come and we link the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process with the Armenian-Turkish protocols.”
As regard the possibility of Armenia recalling the protocols in the foreseeable future, Mr Sharmazanov said.
“I think the Armenian president’s speech in New York was a conceptual speech of a national figure and statesman. He spoke not only as an Armenian national leader, but also as president if all the citizens of Armenia because he raised the issues of not only the Armenian Genocide or Nagorno-Karabakh. He not only called Nagorno-Karabakh free and independent at that high-level venue, suggesting that there is no alternative to Artsakh’s freedom and independence, but also raised the problem of Yezidis in northern Iraq. We remember well that Armenia’s Yezidi community appealed to the Armenian president a month and a half ago, and by his step he showed he is ready to listen to each citizen’s opinion and express the Yezidi minority’s opinion at the high-level UN venue.”
With respect to the statement on the return of the Sis (modern-day Kozan) catholicosate to the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Armenia-Diaspora conference too suggested that an entirely different policy was being pursued in the Armenia-Turkey relations. Commenting on the relevant discussions in Armenia, Mr Sharmazanov said:
“Armenia has over recent years been for a peaceful dialogue with Turkey. Turkey’s political elite and, after being elected Turkey’s president, Recep Erdogan have shown they have not such a political will. We once more state any preconditions are unacceptable to us. And President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement is evidence that Armenia and Armenia’s authorities are masters of the Homeland and claims.
Armenia has invited Turkey to take part in the commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. As to whether the latest statements and the invitation are in conflict with each other, Mr Sharmazanov said:
“No, the invitation has nothing in common with Serzh Sargsyan’s latest statement. If Turkey’s leaders come and visit the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims, Tsitsernakaberd, it means they acknowledge the heinous crime of Genocide. That is, they do not consider the butchers and their victims equal. If they do not come, we re-state that Turkey is continuing its denial policy.”
As to the Armenian side’s further steps if Turkey continues its policy, Mr Sharmazanov said:
“This is under the Armenian president’s jurisdiction. Armenia’s president has proved that he is a national figure and statesman. All his political biography is evidence thereof. He will make a decision in the interests of Armenians and of the state.”
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