Turkey has no intention of ratifying protocols in foreseeable future

“Armenia’s efforts aimed at establishing relations with Turkey didn’t produce results. Ankara is not ready yet to establish ties with Yerevan,” Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said when answering questions of MPs during the PACE session in Strasbourg today.

“As is known, the Turkish leadership refused to ratify the protocols on the establishment of Armenian-Turkish relations. I would not like to speak about the reasons as everyone knows these reasons. I just want to describe my impression. The impression is that Turkey has no intention of ratifying the protocols in the foreseeable future. The problem is not related to us. Each state should take a responsible approach to the documents it has signed, but we don’t see such responsibility and for that reason there are no relations between our countries,” Serzh Sargsyan noted.

According to him, the proposals presented by Turkey’s government were aimed at drawing attention of the international community. “If they had wanted to do something, they would have ratified the protocols and normalized relations,” the Armenian president said.