<b>Gagik Minasyan</b>, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia, said that RA President Serzh Sargsyan presented three aspects of Armenia’s foreign policy in his address in Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

“These are the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, Nagorno Karabakh talks and international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Armenia has registered progress in all three aspects,” Mr. Minasyan said during a joint news conference with ANC member Karapet Rubinyan.

“The President made it clear that Karabakh conflict resolution should base on three principles of the international law: the right of nations to self-determination, territorial integrity and non-use of force,” Mr. Minasyan said.

As to the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, he said Turkey will have to ratify them. “Ratification failure will entail a new wave of recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” he said.

For his part, <b>Karapet Rubinyan</b> remarked that the Armenian President said nothing new as regard the Karabakh conflict settlement. He also emphasized that if Ankara doesn’t ratify the Protocols, the relations between Armenia and Turkey will worsen. “It will set a precedent that the Armenian authorities agreed to form of a joint commission of historians on the Genocide issue,” he said.

Mr. Minasyan, however, objected the opinion, saying that Armenian Genocide can't be a topic of discussion and Armenia will be consistent for its international recognition.