Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated that if the RA-Turkey rapprochement doesn’t come to a logical end in the shortest terms, Armenia will withdraw its signature from the Protocols.

In a talk with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Kyiv, President Sargsyan also ruled out Turkey’s engagement in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process. “A country with one-sided position on the issue can’t be a mediator. Turkey has always supported Azerbaijan in the process,” he said.

“Furthermore, a country dreaming of a region ‘without closed borders’ should first open the border it closed itself. If Azerbaijan’s pressure prevents Turkey from ratification of protocols, so nothing prevents it from opening the closed border with its neighbor,” the President said.

It’s notable that the conversation during the inauguration ceremony of Ukraine’s President- elect Viktor Yanukovych, was initiated by Turkish Foreign Minister, after the Armenian President excluded any possibility of meeting in private.