News about Protocols... etc.

[Armanen]

Re: News about Protocols... etc.

Sargsyan has played his cards well, and right now a lot of diplomatic pressure is on officla ankara to make something happen.

And jos, as Sev explained to you, it is turkey that views Armenia as a hostile nation and thus we are forced to do the same. Not to mention the fact that a country which denies it killed 1.5 million of your people 95 years after the fact, still mistreats its minorties, i.e. kurds, why would Armenians view turks in a favorable light?

[Haykakan]

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TURKISH FM REVEALS ITS TRUE FACE: PROTOCOLS WILL NOT BE SENT TO PARLIAMENT BEFORE APRIL 24

news.am
March 5 2010
Armenia

Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed a hope that Resolution #252 on
recognition of Armenian genocide by U.S. House Committee on Foreign
Affairs will not be included on the agenda of the U.S. Congress
plenary session.

According to Turkish diplomatic sources, it is essential not to
submit Armenia-Turkey Protocols to Turkish Parliament before April 24,
Turkish Haber7 website reports.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will organize a press
conference following the adoption of Armenian Resolution. Earlier,
Turkish FM said Turkey will not make decisions under the pressure.

[Haykakan]

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The Voice of Russia
March 21 2010

Armenia proposes a non-aggression pact with Azerbaijan

Boris Pavlishchev Mar 21, 2010 12:45 Moscow Time


Armenian President Serge Sargsyan has appealed to Azerbaijan to sign a
non-aggression pact which he hopes would prepare the ground for
continued talks about the future of Nagorno Karabakh - an Armenian
enclave which declared its independence from Azerbaijan in the wake of
the 1992 Soviet breakup.

In an interview with Euronews Sargsyan said that non-use of force is
an underlying principle of international law, which holds the key to a
lasting settlement of the long-running territorial dispute.

In an earlier conciliatory move towards Baku, the Armenian leader said
he was ready to accept the modified Madrid Principles of solving the
conflict. Azeri President Ilkham Aliyev responded by saying the
negotiations were already in their final stage but insisted on the
return of all Karabakh territories and the withdrawal of the Armenian
forces stationed there.

All this meaning that Armenia is ready for a compromise, to give back
the areas around Nagorno Karabakh it seized during the brief war of
the early 1990s, and also to give the region a temporary status as
stipulated by the Madrid agreements the Armenian and Azeri president
were handed during the 2007 OSCE summit.

Simultaneously, President Sargsyan reiterated his country's
longstanding premise about the people of Nagorno-Karabakh having every
right to self-determination, adding that Karabakh was artificially
appended to Azerbaijan during the Soviet times and Armenia could not
just give it up.

"In Moscow Carnegie Center expert Alexei Malashenko does not believe
the conflict will be settled any time soon. An economically successful
Azerbaijan sees itself as a South Caucasus superpower, which can use
its enormous material, human and military potential to achieve its
goals - hence its consistent refusal to give any ground on the Nagorno
Karabakh issue".

At the same time, Malashenko does not think a new war is imminent
because neither Russia nor Europe will let it happen. Neither will
Turkey, which 17 years ago broke off diplomatic relations with Armenia
precisely over Nagorno Karabakh. Which means that the international
community should show maximum understanding for the two sides'
positions on the issue, no matter how different they may be, and work
hard to get the settlement process going.

Russia, both independently and as part of the OSCE, plays an active
mediatory role here having already hosted several trilateral summits
to deal with the matter. In 2008 Russian, Armenian and Azeri
presidents signed a declaration underscoring their shared desire to
resolve the conflict on the basis of international law. The latest
such meeting was in January in Sochi where the sides agreed to offer
their own proposals in addition to those made in Madrid.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/21/5487529.html

[Eddo211]

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They turned it down.

“If the head of Armenia wants to eliminate the threat of use of force [by Azerbaijan,] then let him eliminate the causes that can lead to the use of force.....Namely, to withdraw Armenian forces from Azerbaijan’s occupied territories.”

Tensions are picking up as it seems.