ARFD not ruling out possibility of parliament's "washing hands" of Protocols

PanARMENIAN.Net - RA CC decision over Armenian-Turkish protocols has legal effect only on Armenia; the protocols will become internationally binding documents only after being ratified by Armenia's parliament, according to member of ARFD parliamentary group Vahan Hovhannisyan.



"The CC verdict allows for reservations and if parliament fails to do that the document will lose sense." he told Thursday a news conference in Yerevan, not ruling out possibility of parliament's washing hands of the process.



"But we allow that to happen because the parliament should treat the issue with high sense of responsibility," ARFD parliamentarian stressed.



With regard to the timeframes of Protocols' being included in Parliament's agenda, Mr. Hovhannisyan said he had no information about it.



The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.



On January 12, 2010 Armenia's Constitutional Court passed a decision on documents' conformability to RA Constitution.