Diaspora Supports Serzh Sargsyan's Decision to Recall the Protocols

• 02.17.2015, 15:03
•  Region,  Armenia,  Diaspora

Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian welcomed President Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to withdraw the Armenian-Turkish protocols from the Parliament agenda. "Withdrawing these flawed and failed Protocols from Parliament represents a step in the right direction, one that needs to be followed immediately by the next logical step of withdrawing Armenia ’s signature from these Ankara-inspired accords", - Asbarez quotes the statement by Hamparian.

"As we stressed in 2009 – and as is painfully clear today – Armenia should never have signed these one-sided agreements.  Once in place, despite Turkey’s obvious lies and endless preconditions and manipulations, this farce was allowed to continue for far too long.  Even through all of this, we remain encouraged that, despite Ankara’s efforts – through the Protocols and other instruments of denial – to downgrade the Armenian Genocide from an unpunished international crime into a simple bilateral conflict, the Armenian people – in our homeland and Diaspora – remain united in our resolve for a truthful and just resolution of the Armenian Genocide," continued Hamparian.

Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau member and political affairs director Giro Manoyan, in his turn, also agreed that Sarkisian’s decision was a correct step welcomed it, but warned that it was not enough, because the document still contain inherent dangers to Armenia since Armneia’s signature is still on the protocols.

President Serzh Sargsyan recalled the Armenian-Turkish Protocols from the Parliament. He said "it is already six years since the Armenian-Turkey Protocols have been signed and we have to state the lack of Turkish authorities’ political will, the distortion of the letter and spirit of the protocols and the continuous stimulation of preconditions". He also noticed that "simultaneously, as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide approaches, the policy of negationism and historical revisionism is gaining new momentum".