YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 26, ARMENPRESS. Spreading false information, speaking about sincerity, is at least strange, but at the same time characteristic of the Turkish authorities. As reports “Armenpress”, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan stated this answering the question of tert.am news website.

Question: The Foreign Minister of Turkey stated that Ankara always had a preconditions for the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, and that, supposedly, it was known around the globe. How would you interpret that?

Shavarsh Kocharyan: As Foreign Minister Nalbandian put in his article, published in the "Wall Street Journal" in 2010, on the anniversary of Zurich Protocols, “Our position was reflected in the well-known approach of normalization of relations without any preconditions. It was the bottom-line principle for starting the negotiations with Turkey. With this common understanding we started, conducted this process and came to the agreements. From the beginning of the process up until now this approach has been shared by the whole international community—starting from the Swiss mediators to the Secretary-General of the U.N., the OSCE, the EU, the U.S., Russia, France and many other countries.”

Afterwards the above-mentioned states and organizations on numerous occasions reaffirmed that reality.

It is at least bewildering that the Turkish delegation that was negotiating over the Protocols was not aware of the Turkish preconditions, which, according to Cavusoglu, was known to the whole world.

Spreading such false information, speaking about sincerity, is at least strange, but at the same time characteristic of the Turkish authorities.