Stepan Safaryan: Turkey can instigate Azerbaijan to launch hostilities

Stepan Safaryan: Turkey can instigate Azerbaijan to launch hostilities
May 6, 2010 - 15:50 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Protocols on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations are not frozen but thrown into a wastebasket, according to Stepan Safaryan, head of the Heritage parliamentary group.

“Initially, the Protocols were aimed to weaken the Azeri-Turkish tandem,” he told a news conference in Yerevan on May 6. “With suspension of the ratification process in the Armenian parliament, Armenian-Turkish rapprochement can finally fail.”

Safaryan also said that under the circumstances, tensions in the Karabakh process will grow.

“Turkey uses the Karabakh problem as a tool to gain political dividends in regional issues but it can instigate Azerbaijan to launch hostilities,” he said.

As to Armenia’s domestic problems, he did not rule out conduction of early elections.

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